LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Merlin
Margate, Kent.—At 11.6 on the morn- ing of the 19th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down in Kingsgate Bay, but had made no distress signals.
Watch was kept on her, and at 11.53...
Susan Vittery (1)
Roulare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 10.59 on the night of the 21st of Septem- ber, 1949, the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel in the Bay firing red flares and rockets. At 11.12 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings in a very...
Dainty (1)
ESCORT FOR YACHT WITH TORN MAINSAIL Plymouth, Devon. At 8.30 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the Rame Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a yacht whose sails had carried away two miles east-south-east of...
None (6)
NO ONE FOUND At 10.1 a.m. on 26th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a naval aircraft had crashed in Lyme bay and asked the life-boat to search for survivors. The sea was choppy with a gentle south-westerly...
Handy, of Wexford
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
None (3)
Cut off by tide CRIES FOR HELP heard at Stone Bay, 4'/2 miles west of Margate lifeboat station, were reported to HM Coastguard by telephone at 1843 on Tuesday October 10, 1978. Margate D class ILB launched six minutes later and set off...
Spenanger
OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
Resolute
On the 21st September the fishing-boat Resolute, of Leith, whilst bound from Methil to Kincardine for fishing, was driven to sea by the force of the gale, and took refuge in St. Andrews Bay. On the 28th September, when lying there, she was...
Ebenezer
CLOVELLY.—On the 3rd Sept., at 10 A.M., during a strong breeze at N., the smack Ebenezer, of Bideford, being at anchor in a dangerous position off a lee shore, hoisted a signal of distress, whereupon the Lifeboat Alexander and Matilda...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at their quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This is their sixteenth annual collection, and they have collected altogether over...
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