LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Mary
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coxswain received a message from Ballycotton lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting about a mile and a half east-by- north of the...
St. Ambrose
Margate, Kent.—At 11.7 on the morn- ing of the 14th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to pass on a report that a cabin cruiser north of East Margate buoy was burning a flare and flashing a light. At 11.20 the life-boat North...
St. Brendan
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1949, a Bannow fisherman telephoned that a boat was in difficulties about nine miles west of Kilmore Quay. One of the life-boat's ' carriage-tracks was dis- mantled...
St. Helens
Torbay, Devon. — During a severe N.W. gale on the morning of the 23rd January, 1939, the auxiliary ketch St.
Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour and drove ashore on the beach near the...
St. Helier
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.17 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on the Buxey Sands five and a half miles south- west of Clacton. At 7.25 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
St. Margaret
AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her...
St. Gerrard
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.17 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1957, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary he had heard from a pilot that flares were being fired by a boat about one mile south of Arklow har- bour. At 6.30 the...
St. Nicholas
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Beggars Scalp off Seacliff coastguard look-out, but was in no apparent danger. Twenty...
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 6.0 on the night of the 14th of December, 1951, the Coast Live-saving Service telegraphed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Kil- ronan, with a crew of four, had broken down and was drifting, two and a half miles east of Sand...