LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Mar-g-habi
Margate, Kent.—At about 4.30 P.M.
on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht was ashore on the north part of Margate Sands.
The weather was squally, with a southerly wind and a rough...
Sailor King
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a herring drifter had gone ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the north side of Wick Bay. She was the Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Andy
Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the St.
Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.
of the Head was making signals of distress...
A Small Pulling Boat and Ray
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.57 A.M. on the 3rd August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a man had put off from Sandgate in a small pulling boat at 9 A.M. for an hour. He had not returned.
It was assumed that he could not get back....
Nyria and the Wherry Silver Cloud
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which a man was waving ap- peared to be in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. The life-boat Prudential left her moorings at 8.15...
The Belgian Motor Trawler Victoria
Ramsgate, Kent.—About 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing vessel aground on the Quern Shoal Brake Sands, and at 3.36 the life-boat Prudential was launched. A gale wasblowing from the...
St. Joseph
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At eleven o'clock on the night of the 13tn of March, 1950, the Hook Tower light- house keeper reported that a boat was making flares two miles south-west of Hook. The flares and S.O.S. signals on...
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
Our Betty
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a fishing boat had broken down one mile west of Sandgate. She was flying a shirt on an oar as a distress signal.
At...
A Small Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly after ten o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the Carnoustie coastguard reported that the Abertay Light vessel had said a small boat was in difficulties off the light- vessel. A...