LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
Shortly after ; noon on the 3rd August, while a diver was giving a performance fit thy pier- head, the attendant boat was capsized, | throwing her two occupants into the water. There was a moderate N.W.
gale...
Boy Bill
Margate, Kent.—At 12.55 in the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coast- guard reported that a rowing boat, the Boy Bill, of Westgate, with one man on board, was drifting seawards one and a half miles to the north-west, and the motor...
The S.S. Moorwood
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 10.45 on the morning of the 28th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the S.S.
Moorwood, of London, had asked if the...
The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
The Admiralty Dredger St. Giles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
None (9)
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a man in difficulties on the cliffs at Ballard Down. A cliff rescue team had been sent to the...
Mare Novum
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.58 on the morning of the 24th of March, 1960, Lloyd's agent at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Dutch tanker Mare Novum, which was...
A Tiger Moth Aircraft
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore....
Swift
ENGINEER WAS ILL Margate, Kent. At 2.32 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Swift of London had reported that the second engineer was seriously ill and needed a doctor. The life-boat...
Diana III, of Appledore
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...