LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.50 on the night of the 24th of August, 1957, the Hartland Point coastguard reported by telephone that a young man, who had set out at 2.30 in the afternoon to walk from Clovelly to Hartland along the beach, was missing....
The S.S. lano
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...
The S.S. Africa Occidental
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had fired guns to warn a vessel approaching the Sands.
A few minutes later the vessel...
The S.S. Helfrid (1)
Ramsgate, and Dover, Kent. — At 11.55 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1951, a ship was seen off Rams- gate flying a signal asking for a pilot.
The coastguard reported that she had been stationary for nearly two...
Freya
YACHT FOUND WITH HEAVY LIST Margate, Kent. At 5.48 on the evening of Wednesday the 4th September, 1963, the coastguard passed an anticipatory message to the coxswain stating a sailing yacht was nearing the northwest Margate Sands, about...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...
Brigitte Frellsen
DECK CARGO OF TIMBER SHIFTED ON DANISH SHIP Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.7 a.m. on 31 st August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a Danish vessel had developed a very heavy list and was in danger of sinking twelve miles east of Fetlar. The...
An Aeroplane (70)
MAY 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 A.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station informed the coxswain that the pilot cutter, at anchor off the lifeboat house, had reported an aeroplane down about one and a half miles...
Two Sisters
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
Sea Victor and Prairie Schooner
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...