LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Grace Hill
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 29th of December, 1953, the Bangor coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel had run on the rocks at Mew Island. At 11.55 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put to sea.
There was...
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Jane and Maid of Erin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.
Dorothy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard pasted on a message from a steamer that the yacht Dorothy, of Colchester, was in need of help, two miles east of the South-west Bawdsey buoy. At 7.53 the No...
Plain Jane
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.50 on the night of the 9th of September, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Worthing police.
A vessel was making distress signals two...
Martha
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 10.15 on the night of the 29th of July, 1954, a message was received that a man had returned to the harbour in a sailing boat with the news that a motor boat had broken down two miles east of East Pier. At 10.55...
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Daisy Picker
Fenlt, Co. Kerry.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1954, a doctor telephoned that a fishing boat, with a crew of four, was on fire in inner Tralee Bay. At four o'clock the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out in a...
Alcha
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.40 on the morning of the llth of March, 1955, a postman told the mechanic of the life- boat that a ship was on fire about one and a half miles south-east of the life- boat station, and that a small tugcould be seen...
Pluto
Margate, Kent.—At 4.56 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that he had seen a cabin cruiser two miles to the eastward and that one of her crew was waving a shirt. At 5.2 the life- boat North Foreland...