LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferdinand Retzlaff
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...
Sea Eagle II
SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...
A Dinghy (3)
SAILING DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.30 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, a member of the Girvan yacht club informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy with two young men on board was overdue from a...
Gweneth
TOW FOR YACHT EN FOG The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 2.36 on the morning of the 15th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was stationary about one mile east of the life-boat station. She had no engine and...
Two Dinghies (1)
TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine...
A Punt and a Canoe
THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN FOUR HOURS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.20 on the afternoon of Friday, August 23rd, 1963, the Moelfre coastguard reported that an 8-foot punt with two on board was in serious difficulties four and a half miles south-south...
Herga
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Mid-Barrow light- vessel had reported that a cabin cruiser appeared to be aground two miles...
Lorna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 on the 23rd of May, 1959, the coast- guard told the motor mechanic that the police at Brighton had reported a dinghy in difficulties one mile east of the King Alfred swimming baths at Hove. One minute...
Fulham VIII and Caribon
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fulham VIII had reported that she had been in collision with the yacht Caribon and that the yacht'...
The S.S. Goldstone and the S.S. Naranco (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent. At 3 46 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of both stations that the s.s. Goldstone of Panama had collided with the s.s. Naranco of Gijon, Spain,...