LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ellington
At 5.30 A.M. on the 18th February it was reported that signals of distress were being shown by a vessel ashore at Sand's Head. The crew of the Life-boat Queen Victoria were at once summoned and the Life-boat was launched. The steamer...
Rosco
On the llth January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was ashore opposite the Saltfleet Coastguard station. A thick fog prevailed at the time, with a moderate breeze and choppy sea. The crew of the...
Rosemary and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that, as the weather was freshening, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing cobles Rosemary and Hilda II which had left the...
Angela
TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down...
Spindrift
CATAMARAN WITH DECKS AWASH SAVED New Brighton, Cheshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran, Spindrift, appeared to be in trouble off...
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
A Dinghy
CLINGING TO DINGHY At 12.40 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the Wallasey police told the honorary secretary that two men had been seen clinging to a capsized dinghy a mile north of the Leasowe lighthouse. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...
A Cabin Cruiser
FLASHING LIGHT SEEN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.40 p.m. on 26th September 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the coaster Mary Birch had reported at 11.30 a.m. seeing a small flashing light north-west of Blacktail...
A Rowing Boat
Dover, Kent. At 1.43 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported a rowing boat in difficulties off Copt Point. At two o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa put out...