LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peter Carey
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.45 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard reported a trawler ashore between Noup Head and Start Point and at 3.38 the life- boat J. J. K. S. W. left her moorings.
There...
A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again...
Sea Mew
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 16th of June, 1952, the bridge keeper reported that a fishing vessel was drifting towards Clay Head, Onchan, and appeared to be in dis- tress. The life-boat Millie Walton, with the branch...
Acteon
Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...
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Clovelly, Devon. — At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952, the Hartland Point coastguard tele- phoned that a boy was reported to be cut off by the tide at Shipload Bay, and at 4:30 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
Christina Peter
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 on the even- ing of the 2nd of October, 1952, the Deal coastguard rang up to say a woman had reported that her husband, his friend and a child had put out on a fishing trip in the outboard motor boat Christina Peter,...
Two Jet Aircraft
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 on the night of the llth of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that two jet aircraft had collided and crashed into the sea at a position four miles north- west, thence twenty miles north-east by north. The...
A Raft
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that three boys were adrift on a raft off Arklow beach, and that a man had swum to them, but had returned to the shore for help. At 6.7 the life...
A Boat
UNABLE TO ROW Redcar, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m. on I3th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties near Huntcliff, Saltburn.
There was a fresh west-north-westerly breeze with...
The White Rose
WHITE FLAG FLYING Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.10 a.m.
on ist September, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a crab boat was flying a white flag off Weybourne, apparently hi difficulties. There was a moderate...