LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 1.55 in the morning of the 18th of February, 1949, the Kyle coastguard reported that the new motor fishing boat Alliance, of Inverness, was ashore five miles to the south-east of Calve Island in the Sound of Mull...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.48 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, a message was received from the Valen- tia Radio Station that a vessel was flying distress signals about one and a half miles south-south-west of Skellig's Rocks...

New Brighton, Cheshire.- At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of July, 1954, the Superintendent of Wallasey Ferries reported that a large pontoon beneath the New Brighton landing stage had severed its securing bolts and was adrift. It was a...

Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.

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Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...

Wicklow, and Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—• At 10.12 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the Wicklow life- boat's motor mechanic heard a mes- sage from the Portpatrick radio station that the Swedish steamer Heimdal was drifting near...