LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 19th November, 1938, information was received from the R.N. Shore Signal Station that a motor yacht was in distress, bearing south, midway between Southend pierhead and Sheerness. A light S.W....

Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 1.55 A.M.

on the 24th June, 1938, the watchman on the East Pier reported that a yacht south of the harbour was burning flares.

A light S.S.W. breeze was...

Southwold, Suffolk.—At 12.32 P.M.

on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor and sailing yacht, to the southward of Southwold, was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, and...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard pasted on a message from a steamer that the yacht Dorothy, of Colchester, was in need of help, two miles east of the South-west Bawdsey buoy. At 7.53 the No...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.7 on the night of the 25th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had fired a red Vercy light off Trinity Depot. At 10.30 the life-boat St. Cybi, Civil Sen'ice No. 9 was launched on service...

Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th of August, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board telephoned to say the Poolbeg light- house-keeper had reported that two men in a small yacht near North Bull lighthouse were...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 28th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a tug with a yacht in tow had run ashore on the Hook Sands. At 6.45 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. 11 was launched....