LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annie
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A signal of distress was shown by the schooner Annie, of Lancaster, which was about three miles E.N.E. of the harbour and drifting ashore, in a moderate gale from S.S.E., thick weather and a rough sea, on the 17th April....
A Schooner (1)
A message was received from the Coast- guard at 6 P.M. on 18th May that a schooner anchored in St. Bride's Bay about two miles off shore, was flying a distress signal. The crew of the Life-boat General Farrell were assembled but a...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
Two Small Boats
APRIL 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported two small boats drifting three miles south-west of the South Stack. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 4.10 in a light...
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OCTOBER 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE, AND DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed several miles inland. One of the crew was killed, but the other had baled out. He was carried to the coast and came down in...
Prevail
Cromarty.—On the night of the 4th September the coastguard at South Sutor telephoned that a vessel, presumably the local motor fishing boat Prevail, which was overdue, was showing distress signals six to seven miles due east. A moderate and...
Scarcity
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.46 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Scarcity, of London, that her rudder was not working. She was ten miles north- east-by-east of...
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...
Silver Queen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Silver Queen appeared to have broken down and was flashing a light about four miles from Margate pier. At 11.24...