LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir Garnet
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...
Eaton
Clacton - on - Sea and Walton - on - the- Naze, Essex. — During a moderate northerly gale on the 17th January, a wireless message was received stating that a trawler was ashore on the Barrow Sand. This message was con- veyed both to Clacton...
A Sailing Boat and Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the...
Oceaan
On the morning of the 23rd December, a message was received from the harbour- master at Wexford that a vessel was ashore on Wexford bar. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life- boat K.E.C.F. left her...
Three Rowing Boats and a Motor Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
Albatross
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.10 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1951, the Deal Coastguard telephoned he had seen two red flares four miles south-by- east of the coastguard station. At 5.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was...
Fagerheim
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—During foggy weather on the morning of the llth August, 1938, the Norwegian steamer Fagerheim, of Tons berg, ran ashore, in a smooth sea, south of Briardene. Information was given by the coastguard, and at 10.40...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that the Rye police had reported that a boy swimming off Camber was drifting out to sea. At 5.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
A Metal Dinghy
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw through a telescope three men in a metal dinghy. They had put off to try to recover a rubber dinghy, which was drifting out...
A Meteor Aircraft
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...