LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty L.C.T. 534
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 8.20 A.M. the Deal coastguard asked for the life-boat crew to be assembled. At 9.18 A.M. a further message came that vessel was over the Brake Sands, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...
Richard Emily, of Highbridge
It was blowing hard at N.W. on the 15th Sept. when the Life-boat Cheltenham was launched from this station to the assistance of the schooner Hwhard and Emily, of High- bridge, which was in distress seven miles from Burnham. The Life-boat...
A Boat (1)
Selsey, Sussex.—5th June. Search was made for two boys in a boat, but they got ashore unaided.—Rewards, £9 12s. 6d..
The S.S. Ocklinge
COVERACK, FALMOUTH and THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 4th March a message was received at Falmouth, from the Coast- guard, that a steamer was ashore at Lowland Point and in need of help.
She was the s.s....
None (6)
FOOD TO A SNOW-BOUND TOWN St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—Bv the 8th of March, 1947, the roads to St.
David's had been impassable for three days owing to heavy falls of snow, and food was getting short there. A...
Lone Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...
Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of September, 1959, a message was re- ceived that the motor boat Heron, which had a man and his wife on board and was towing a small dinghy, had not returned from a...
A Motor Boat (2)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be...
Unitia
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.35 on the night of the 24th of May, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the steam trawler Unitia, of Aberdeen, that she had gone ashore in Rousay Sound and needed help. At 11.45 the life...
Beau Geste
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.50 on the night of the 3rd of July, 1952, the Foreland coastguard reported a flare, and a few minutes later stated that a vessel to the south had made an S O S signal. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at...