LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flying Fox
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bathing Master telephoned that a yacht had run ashore between No. 4 and No. 6 buoys in the River Liffey. At 9.40 the life-boat Helen Blake...
Larrios
Kirkcudbright.—At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 19th of September, 1954, the Ross Island coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties. She had been burning1 flares and was now drifting rapidly towards rocks. At 3.15 the life-boat...
Walmer Centenary
QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Walmer one hundred years ago at a ceremony which took place at the Walmer boat-house on the 23rd of May...
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The S.S. Hilda
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 3.10 A.M.
on the 29th August, 1939, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on May Island. The weather was very thick, with a light easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat Nellie and...
S.S. Alphald
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.35 A.M. on the 22nd October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer s.s. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W.
Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked s.s....
Sevona
Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.40 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1958, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht had broken down three miles south- west of Portland and that H.M. frigate Murray had left...
A Dinghy (2)
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.35 on the morning of the 22nd of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the east pier watchman had reported a dinghy drifting past Quern buoy.
At 7.52 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...
Little Meg
Redcar, Yorkshire, At 10.20 on the morning of the 20th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Saltburn.
At 10.45 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate sea. A...
None (2)
NAVAL RATING TRIES TO SWIM TO SHIP Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary medical adviser that a naval rating had decided to swim to his ship...
Picquigny
CABIN CRUISER TOWED INTO HARBOUR Walmer, Kent. At 5.38 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been seen two miles off shore east of the look-out. The life-boat Charles...