LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Mitcham
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 4th of March, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Mitcham, of London, which was at anchor half a mile south-east of Chap- man Light, had reported that her skipper was ill...
Matelot
Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord...
Dunottar Castle
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.10 on the night of the 16th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the parents of the crew of the fishing boat Dunottar Castle that the men were five hours overdue from fishing lobsters...
White Cloud
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...
Pudge
Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a barge was flying the international code flag F, indicating she was disabled, four miles east-north-east of Margate...
A Raft
At 12.25 p.m. on i2th June, 1966, the Skerries lighthouse keeper reported sighting a raft with 10 skin divers on board about one mile off Skerries. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 12.36 in a light south easterly...
An Aeroplane (89)
AUGUST 15TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An enemy aeroplane had been brought down, and a second had been seen to fall, but an Amble fishing boat rescued five Germans, and nothing else was found but three patches of oil. -...
Constellation
Weymouth: On Friday March 2, 1984, the 68ft yacht Constellation was crossing Lyme Bay on passage from Humble to Falmouth when, the weather deteriorating, the north-westerly winds rose to storm force 10. She turned about to return to Hamble...
Four New Scottish Life-Boats Named
DURING the month of August, 1961, no fewer than four new life-boats were named in Scotland. The ceremonies took place at Aith on the 2nd August, at Whitehills on the 12th August, at Port- patrick on the 16th August, and at Buckie on the 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - SALCOMBE , DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had been picked up from their rubber dinghy by a Hope Cove fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 13s.
(See Hope Cove, “ Services by...