LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Carol, of Ipswich
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.24 a.m. on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that distress flares had been sighted three miles from Bembridge lookout.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 1.47 in a light south south...
Servic (1)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire. At 5.10 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1957, the South Gare coastguard told the Teesmouth honorary secretary that a vessel was firing rockets one mile north of the breakwater. At 5...
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
None (9)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—14th June, 1939, An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Barton-on-Sea, but nothing was found, nor was any aeroplane reported missing.—Rewards, £3 18s..
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
Morning Breeze
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.40 on the after- noon of the 9th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Chichester police had reported a yacht in difficulties half a mile off Brackles- ham Bay. At six o'clock the life-boat Canadian...
A Rubber Dinghy
NOVEMBER 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 10.8 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Ramsgate sent a message through the coastguard that an object. like a rubber boat was drifting two and a half miles north of Foreness.
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Binny Stewart
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.27 on the evening of the 6th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a light or flare had been seen to the south-west of Walton pier, and at 7.55 a vessel was seen to burn...
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Batalite'. It has two range...
Category: Advertisement
Mermaid
At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...