LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas and Bluejacket
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Cockle Light-vessel on the 16th January, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 7.15 P.M.
A light breeze was then blowing from S.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather...
Melanie
Swanage, Dorset.—At 9.20 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning red flares off Chap- man's Pool. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 9.24. There was a rough sea with a heavy...
Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
A Rubber Dinghy.
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three people were drifting out to sea off Crindon Dene in a rubber dinghy.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
Santagata
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.39 in the morning of the 24th of December, 1950, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the Italian motor vessel Santagata that she was aground on the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and in need of help. She was...
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was...
A Motor Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 20th of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat from Ramsey Island bound for St. Justinian had broken down and was drifting past St. David'...
Tonton Alexandre
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.55 on the morning of the llth of February, 1959, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the honorary secretary that a Frenchtrawler was in difficulties between Corsewall and Campbeltown. Further enquiries were made...
Little Zakery
Swanage, Dorset. At 9.22 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man from the yacht Little Zakery of Hamble, which was ashore on a reef near Old Harry Rocks, had been landed by...
Aires
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...