LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little John
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a trawler in Moelfre Bay was flying a signal asking for a boat to stand by her. At 2.15, therefore, the life-boat G.W....
An Anson Aeroplane
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.39 in the afternoon, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea twenty miles distant in a north- easterly direction from Ramsgate. At 1.51 the life...
Path
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—About 11.48 on the night of the 15th of August, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea Coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress to the cast of Shorcham Harbour. At 12.12 next morning the life-boat Jane Holland, on...
Khaki
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.0 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1951, the life-boat shore attendant told the coast- guard that a boat in Pegwell Bay was making a signal. She had apparently anchored near the breakers. The coast- guard passed...
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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the police reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide on a rock off the western undercliff. The motor life-boat Prudential...
Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About eight in the evening of the 20th of May, 1948, the local motor fishing vessel Galilee— which was out fishing and had in- tended staying at sea throughout the night—wirelessed that she would be returning to harbour....
Brali
Walmer, Kent.—At 1.3 in the after- noon of the 14th of April, 1949, the Deal coastguard telephoned a report from North Foreland Radio Station that the motor tanker Brali, of Oslo, bound for Bergen, from Abadan, had gone aground on the...
Emily
Troon, Ayrshire.—At. 11.55 in the morning of the 9th of August, 1949, the coxswain saw the Greenock motor fishing boat Emily, which had a crew of five, showing flares. She was lying broadside on to the sea off Gailes Beach to the...
A Tractor's Summer Bathe
The drought in 1949 was so severe that the Council at Rhyl would not allow the launching tractor to be washed with fresh water, so her drivers washed her at sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martlett
On the evening of the 21st April the coastguard reported that a small yacht, anchored in Pol- zeath Bay, was in a dangerous position.
The wind and sea were slight, but she was very close to the rocks and would have grounded...