LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
Adroity
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.29 on the evening of the 12th of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Adroity, of London, had run on the sands about two miles south-east- by-east of the coastguard station. At 7.20 the...
Sealight
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 12.15 on the morning of the 22nd of Sep- tember, 1956, the Southend coast- guard telephoned that a red rocket had been seen five miles south-east-by-east of the look-out. At 12.39 the life- boat City of Glasgow...
Amstelstroom
Appledore, Devon.—During a thick fog in the early hours of the morning of the 18th of July, 1948, the motor ship Amstelstroom, of Amsterdam went aground on the rocky coast of Lundy Island. Her crew of eleven got...
CADABRA: Sandhursts' floating showroom
Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.
At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...
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Boy John
Wells, Norfolk. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretarythat a yacht was in distress off Blakeney.
There was a moderate west-south- westerly wind and a smooth sea...
Lorna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 on the 23rd of May, 1959, the coast- guard told the motor mechanic that the police at Brighton had reported a dinghy in difficulties one mile east of the King Alfred swimming baths at Hove. One minute...
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Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
Pandora
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1959, the fishing vessel Pandora of Newhaven, which had left for the fishing grounds at noon on the 1st of Decem- ber, had not returned, and the local fishermen were worried...
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...