LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arthur Margetts
On the 10th April the barge Arthur Margetts, of Rochester, bound for Brightlingsea with a cargo of crude oil, got into difficulties. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The barge dropped anchor, but it dragged, and she went...
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
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Dirk II
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...
William Cale and Motor Fishing Boat Delight
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller...
The S.S. Virginia
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....
British Valour and Cruiser
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 7.30 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the tug Cruiser had reported that she had the tanker British Valour, of London, in tow four miles south- south-west of Ailsa Craig,...
Lead Us (1)
Wbitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— During the early morning of the 24th of March, 1951, the motor fishing boat, Lead Us, of Whitby, put out from Whitby with a crew of five. But the weather got worse and at 11.0 she was seen off...
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
A Motor Launch
Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1955, the coast- guard reported that a motor launch from H.M.S. Ocean, an aircraft carrier at anchor off Margate, was in diffi- culties in dense fog near the Nayland Rocks about a...
Navette and other Yachts
Margate, Kent. At 12.36 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Birching- ton and that a motor boat had gone to her help. The Margate Yacht Club had been...