LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yangtsze
Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the night of the 10th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Wareham had received a report of a flashing light on the cliffs near Old Harry Rocks.
There...
Zephyr
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1956, the Penmon coastguard tele- phoned that a cabin cruiser was burning flares one mile west of Puffin Island. Her engine had stopped, and she was in danger of...
Kristina Thorden
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 24th of November, 1956, a message was received from the Swedish motor vessel Kristina Thorden that she had a very sick man on board.
She asked the life-boat to meet her at...
Sethon
Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 1st of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Sethon, of Fleet- wood, was ashore on the Black Rocks in Islay Sound. The life-boat Char- lotte Elizabeth put out...
Yvonne Risager and May Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 6.50 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1957, the coxswain received a telephone message that the motor fishing vessel Yvonne Risager was in difficulties with a fouled propeller ten miles west of May Island.
Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...
Black Cat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.45 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1958, a message was received from the motor vessel Channel Trader, on passage from Newhaven to Guernsey, that shehad passed the fishing boat Black Cat three miles north...
Gull (1)
Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...
Loch Eribol
DOCTOR'S ASSISTANCE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 3.45 p.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Loch Eribol of Hull had a badly injured man on board. Her position was then 23 miles east of...
The Survey Ship H.M.S. Echo
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...