LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sunstar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...
Kaapfalga
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 2.50 A.M. on the 13th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel about two miles E. by N. from Britannia Pier was thought to be ashore. A light, and increasing, S.E.<...
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
A Sailing Boat (2)
Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.
—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
The Sailing Barge Yarana
Margate, Kent.—At 2.15 A.M. on the 15th October, 1939, the coastguard telephoned the coxswain that he believed a vessel was burning flares. The coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and was satisfied that they were distress signals. An...
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FOOD, MAILS AND A DOCTOR Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 9.30 in the evening of the 28th of February, 1947, the postmaster asked, on behalf of himself and the food officer, if the life-boat could go out on the following day to take food and mails to...
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tanker Wave Master
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Master, of London, bound from the Persian Gulf, had asked for a boat to land the...
Prins Alexander
Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...
Lady Muriel
Selsey, Sussex. — During the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1952, a motor launch anchored about half a mile west-south-west of Selsey Bill, and the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic put out to her in his own boat. He learnt that...