LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.30 on the night of the 15th of March, 1948, local pilots reported that the reflection of flares could be seen off Creadon Head and at eight o'clock, with Mr. A. Westcott Pitt, the honorary...

Walmer, Kent..—At 11.16 on night of the 14th of June, 1948, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning a flare and her crew shouting for help half a mile north-east of Leathercoat Point, and the motor life-boat Langham, on...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a boat appeared to be in difficulties between West Mersea and Bradwell, and at half past one the motor life-boat Edward Z....

Dover, Kent.—At one in the morning of the 6th of October, 1948, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that a yacht was making S.O.S. signals in Langdon Bay,, and at 1.20 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...

Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1948, during a dense fog, the coast- guard rang up to say that the skipper of a motor boat had reported passing the local fishing vessel Kathleen near Longnose Buoy and that...

Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...

Dover, Kent.—At half past six in the evening of the 13th of August, 1949, a rowing boat which had been stolen from Dover was reported to be between St. Margarets Bay and Langdon Bay with two men on board. The life-boat Southern Africa was...