LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dynamo
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.54 in the afternoon, on the 10th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio reported the steamer Dynamo, of Hull, aground two miles south-south-west of Ramsgate. At 4.8 the life-boat...
Solent Swan and Oriana
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.
Then...
Albion
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...
Gwynronald
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the night of the 19th September flares were seen about three miles N.E. of the life-boat station. They were repeated shortly after and the motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.30 P.M.
to...
Casita
On the afternoon of the 25th October the coastguard at Cliff End telephoned that a vessel was burning flares at the mouth of Keyhaven river. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was squally. The motor life- boat...
Fishing Boats
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
Ever Ready
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1954, the Rhyl coastguard reported that the Rhyl fishing boat Anna Rosa, which had broken down off Llandudno, had been taken in tow by the fishing boat Ever Ready,...
Antigoon
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of Novem- ber, 1954, the St. Govan's coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Antigoon, of Antwerp, had broken down four miles south-west-by-west of St....
Gem and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 on the morning- of the 30th of October, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat three quarters of a mile north of Whitby was burning flares.
Five minutes later the no. 1 life-boat...
The S.S. Kyle Castle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...