LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clai
Dover, Kent. At 6.10 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares two miles off Leathercoat Point. A Dutch tug had gone to her help and had connected a tow line....
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MAY 2 8TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.50 P.M. a telephone message was received from the Milford Haven naval base that a soldier had fallen over the cliff at Mill Bay. The weather was fine with a northerly wind and a...
Gadfly
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties in Dur- leston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby, was launched in a strong south-west...
Fitz Clarence
During a dense fog on the 3rd March a boat came ashore at Walmerand reported thatalarge steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was at once assembled and the boat launched at...
A Motor Launch and Tehtar and Essex Pride
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex- At 11.26 a.m.
on 27th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch appeared to be in trouble.
There was a strong gale from the west south...
J.T. & S.
Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings...
Wiz
CAPSIZED Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.5 p.m. on 16th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the lighthouse keeper that a small yacht had capsized about a quarter of a mile off...
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Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
St Fergus
The Life-boat Cotton Sheppard, stationed here, was also launched the same day to the aid of the schooner St. Fergus, of Aberystwith, which had shown signals of distress on account of her being in very shallow water and in danger of striking...
Teal
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The steam trawler Teal, of London, returning to Lowestoft from the fishing grounds, in thick weather, on the night of the 17th January, stranded about a mile N. of Winterton. At about 1 A.M. she was seen by the look-out...