LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...

Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.5 OB the afternoon of the 15th of December 1956, a message was received thai the motor fishing vessel Rose VaUtf of Burnmouth was three miles east of Burnmouth with a broken fuel pipe and needed help. The...

Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 12th of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that a small boat needed help one mile south-east of the coastguard station. At one o'clock the life-boat, Thomas Markby, on temporary duty...

Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that there were six local fishing cobles at sea, and as weather conditions were bad it had become very dangerous for boats...

LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....

TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN SHAFT Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 24th April, 1962, the keeper of the Dunnet Head lighthouse informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with a broken propeller shaft was...

MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY AID OF SEARCHLIGHT Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down, had run out of fuel and was drifting...

TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL ON FIRE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. At 4.36 on the morning of the 17th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that a ship was...