LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cap-Lizard
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 6.48 a.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yacht was firing red flares about two miles south south west of the Lizard West coastguard's look-out....
Louisa
^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...
Zem Zem, of London
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
As soon as the motor life-boat J. B.
Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, returned at 4.40 in the afternoon, after towing the boat Harriett into...
Trapper
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, a Wexford man telephoned that his son had put out in the yacht Trapper at 11 o'clock that morning and had not returned, and that a message...
Craignair
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
Eligug
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the police had passed on a message from Strumble Head that a boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. At 10.50 that...
Edford
Plymouth, Devon.—On the after- noon of the 24th of June, 1950, an explosion, believed to have been caused by an oil stove, set fire to the yacht Edford, of Dartmouth, oft Blackstone Point. A man and .his wife were on board. The woman...
Skugga
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 11.50 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, the coastguard passed on a message from Woolwich asking for help for a naval cutter four miles to the north- east of the Shipwash lightvessel. At five minutes past...
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
Active
Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...