LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dahlia
MOTOR CRUISER AGROUND NEAR SEA WALL Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares in Seaford Bay, and at 1.50 the life-boat...
A Motor Cruiser (2)
TOW BY LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Life-boat on passage. On the 13th July, 1962, the reserve life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was on passage from Kirkcudbright to Portpatrick. There was a light south-westerly breeze and a smooth sea. At 10.10 in the...
Silver Wave
HERRING DRIFTER BREAKS AWAY FROM TUG Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.50 on the evening of the 10th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a tug towing the Scottish herring drifter Silver Wave, which had a crew of eight,...
Carnation
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE TROUBLE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.17 on the afternoon of the 23rd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from the Peterhead look-out two and a half...
May
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...
Fokke Dejong
HELP FOR DUTCH At 12.5 a.m. on 5th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the superintendent coxswain that the Dutch motor vessel Fokke dejong needed the help of the lifeboat to land a sick man. It was arranged that the life-boat would...
Jodon
SAFELY TO MARGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.47 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was flashing the international distress signal one mile north of Kingsgate. There was a gentle...
None (5)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 24th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Seaford police had reported that four people were cut off by the tide between Splash Point, Seaford, and Cuckmere Haven. At 4.24 the...
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
Dorian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 12th of September, 1954, a man at Sark reported that the motor yacht Dorian had left Sark, with six people on board, for Guernsey at six o'clock that evening and ought to have...