LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pudge
Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a barge was flying the international code flag F, indicating she was disabled, four miles east-north-east of Margate...
Squall and Valerie
Margate, Kent. At 4.26 on the after- noon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Whiteness. There was a moderate north-westerly wind with a rough sea....
Aileena
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-west of Orford light. After further enquiries had been made...
Star of Hope
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.15 on the evening of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the drifter Star of Hope was stranded on the Scroby Sands and was asking for help. There was a...
Tula
Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...
Campaigner
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.10 p.m. on i5th August, 1965, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was aground on Cork Sands.
She was in no immediate danger, but it was later decided to launch the...
A Helicopter
At 3.37 p.m. on I4th June, 1966, there was an alert that a helicopter had crashed in the Solent near West Lepe buoy. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings together with.
the IRB at 3.55 p.m. There was a...
Margara Della
MAN AND BABY TAKEN OFF YACHT Poole, Dorset. At 9.10 on the evening of the 29th September, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was missing inside the harbour with a man and a baby on board. The yacht had grounded at...
Fifi
YACHT POOPED AND FLOODED IN HEAVY BREAKERS Rhyl, Flintshire. On Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the yacht Fiji, of New Brighton, was bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of two, but she was overtaken by bad weather and decided to make...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (6)
On the 14th November, 1939, the Yarmouth life-boat rescued the crew of twelve of one of H.M. Trawlers. Coxswain Walter O. Cotton was awarded the silver medal.
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