LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mon Ami
OCT. 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard reported having received a message from a resident of Hollandon- Sea, that a small rowing boat with three men on board appeared to be in difficulties about...
Patriot, of Wexford
AUGUST 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At nine in the evening a telephone message from the military lookout post at Greenore Point reported that the motor fishing boat Patriot, of Wexford, appeared to have broken down and to be flying...
A Fleet Air Arm Barracuda Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.
Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north...
A Small War Department Motor Launch Cypress
NOVEMBER 6TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.56 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported that a small War Department motor launch, with a crew of three, had broken down and was making distress signals east of Start Point...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
The Converted Ship’s Life-Boat Harriett
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
About eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a sailing boat flying a distress signal two miles south-south-west of Clacton pier. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and...
The Sailing Racing Yacht Ragna R., of London
AUGUST 17TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 7.20 in the morning the coastguard reported a sailing yacht flying distress signals three miles south-south-east of Bill Tower. A strong north-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
Italo-Balbo
MARCH 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. The Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the south-west Goodwin Buoy.
A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. At 4.50 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles...
An Aeroplane (7)
APRIL 7TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 6.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea three miles south of Blyth. A light S.W.
breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. The motor...
Prudence
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...