LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Will Everard (1)
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1955, a man reported that the barge Will Everard, of London, which had a crew of four, had run ashore near Galloways.
At 11.25 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Soudan
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...
Gnomo
Walmer, Kent - 9.56 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was aground on the Goodwin sands about five miles east of Deal pierhead. At 10.8 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station,...
The Phoenix 121
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the phoenix 121, one of the concrete caissons used for building the invasion port on the coast of Normandy, to which the life-boat had...
An Aeroplane (140)
OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on...
Fluminense, of London
NOVEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 9.3 in the morning the Sandgate coastguard reported a motor yacht in distress two and a half miles south-south-west of Dungeness Lighthouse. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing,...
Phoenix 121
AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
Girvan - Mersey Class Silvia Burrell
Pictured (from left to right) are Archie MacKenzie, chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council and member of the committee of management, second coxswain Stuart Moffat, Mrs Sue Stephen, His Grace the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Milestone (L)' the Duke of Kent Meets Crew Members Who Had Themselves Built Their Boathouse; They Are Introduced By Senior Crew Member Henry Slade Photogra
milestone (/.).' The Duke of Kent meets crew members who had themselves built their boathouse; they are introduced by Senior Crew Member Henry Slade. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Folkestone Herald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs