LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fagerheim
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—During foggy weather on the morning of the llth August, 1938, the Norwegian steamer Fagerheim, of Tons berg, ran ashore, in a smooth sea, south of Briardene. Information was given by the coastguard, and at 10.40...
An Aircraft
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that wreckage of an aircraft had been seen four miles south of Varne lightvessel. At 12.50 the life- boat Charles...
A Sailing Boat
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 11.59 on the night of the 9th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with one man on board, which had last been seen off the west pier earlier that day, had not returned to...
A Canoe
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift and in difficulties in a canoe off Yarmouth beach, approxi- mately one mile...
Susan Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 8.30 on the evening of the llth of July, 1953, the second coxswain told the coxswain that he had seen the yacht Susan Ann, of Fremington, with a crew of four, make distress signals. The Susan Ann was off Crow Rocks near...
Maud
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 1.30 early on the morning of the 20th of Au- gust, 1953, a man rang up the life-boat station and said that four men had put out in the fishing boat Maud, of Jersey, but were now five hours overdue. At 2.30 a...
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing fleet was returning to harbour and that the conditions at the bar were dangerous. The life-boat Tine Duke of...
Emulate
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a...
Teal
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the night of the 4th of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a smallsailing boat was drifting off Rhos- colyn with two youths aboard. At 9.31 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched...
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Dover, Kent. On the evening of the 28th of June, 1958, the police reported that two boys had been cut off by the tide between South Foreland and St.
Margaret's Bay. At 8.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out, taking...