LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Kestrel
Margate, Kent.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had capsized half a mile north of Reculver Tower. At 3.47 the life- boat North Foreland, Civil Service No.
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Warrior Geraint and Choice
Torbay, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 10th of December, 1957, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was flashing S.O.S. inside Torquay harbour. The lifeboat George Shee put out at 10.35 in a heavy swell. A fresh...
British Oakand and Don Pat
MCH. 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.34 P.M. the R.N. Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse Light-vessels. The sea was rough, with a strong squally W.N.W. breeze....
Phaedra
PwIIheli, Caernarvonshire.—On the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, a south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 4.10 the Abersoch coastguard asked the life-boat to search for a sailing boat which had been seen off...
Capri
— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...
Frolic
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles...
Rivale
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.40 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore on the West Barrow Sands between a mile and two miles north-west of the Mid Barrow lightvessel....
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...
Clarissa
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 12th of April, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic told the coxswain that a vessel was on the West Hoyle Bank. The coxswain told the Formby coastguard and kept watch on her. She made...
Beau Geste
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.50 on the night of the 3rd of July, 1952, the Foreland coastguard reported a flare, and a few minutes later stated that a vessel to the south had made an S O S signal. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at...