LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pepita
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...
Nemo II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.24 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the owner of the local motor pleasure boat Nemo II had reported that his boat had broken from her moorings and was drifting towards the...
Black Adder
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...
Endeavour and Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while the fishing fleet were at sea, and conditions at theharbour became dangerous. At 7.45 the life-boatmen assembled to wait for the boats to...
None
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
No. 51
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1955, a woman at Norton telephoned that a vessel was burning flares near Black Rock. The vessel was the M.F.V. No. 51, of the Water Trans- port Section of the Royal Army...
Ros Ailither and Ros Tuaisceart
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.14 on the morning of the 3rd of May. 1955, a man rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from his fishing boat Ros Ailither that she had taken in tow the fishing boat Ros...
Pilot Me II and the S.S. Arthur Wright
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 8th of January, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Pilot Me II, as the weather was worsening. The life-boat crew assembled, but at 6.30 the coast- guard rang...
None (3)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...