LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent.—At 7.45 on the even- ing of the 1st of August, 1952, H.M.
Customs Coastwatcher reported that two men were cut off by the tide between St. Margarets Bay and Dover, and at 8.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
Fumerole
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Gorles- ton coastguard telephoned that the steam drifter Fumerole, of Peterhead, which had been in tow of another drifter, had parted her tow...
Yacht Symphony II
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 19th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Austerity hadwirelessed that she had the ten-ton sloop yacht Symphony II, with a crew of six, in tow about...
Davaar
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1953, the life-boat tractor driver reported that the local motor cruiser Davaar was in distress a hundred yards east of East Pier. At 8.20 the life-boat James and Ruby...
Arlette
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 9.35 in the night of the 23rd of December, 1949, a wireless message was picked up at St. Abbs from the steam trawler Arlette, of Grimsby. She was making for Berwick to land a man with a poisoned arm....
2d. a Week
A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
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Cornucopia
Caister, Norfolk.—About 5.15 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on the Scroby Sands, but -not in immediate danger. At 6.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in...
A Firefly Sailing Dinghy
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a Firefly sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized off Irish- man's Spit at the eastern end of the Menai Straits....
Maria
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned to say a woman had reported that her husband had put out in the twenty-feet motor boat Maria early that morning and had not returned...
African Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Sen-ice No. 30) was launched....