LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Ardetta, of Liverpool, which was off Newhaven, had asked for a boat to land a man who had fallen down her hold. The...

Walton & Frinton, Essex - At 2.4 a.m. on 25th May, 1967, it was learned that there was a sick man on board the tanker Daleward who needed to be brought ashore for medical attention. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...

SEPTEMBER 27TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 5.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that a German aeroplane was in the sea a quarter of a mile S.W. of the bathing pool at St.

Leonards, and that another had crashed in...

NOVEMBER 22ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 7.5 in the evening the naval authorities asked for the services of the lifeboat for a patrol boat which was in difficulties near the mouth of the harbour and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...

Aberdeen ON-1248:Jun27.Jul2 D-536 Junl. Jul2. JulB, Julie Abersoch B-582:Jun24.Jul20,Jul25.Jul28.

Jul3t{x2) Aberystwyth B-704 Jun18.Jun20.Jun2l.Jul1, Jul5. Jul7. Jul22. Ju126, Jul27.

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COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...

SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.

_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...