LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tranquillity
DINGHY CAPSIZED At 8.23 p.m. later the same day the coxswain saw a sailing dinghy capsize about one mile south-east of Ramsgate.
There was a moderate to fresh northwesterly breeze with a moderate sea. It was two hours...
Jewel
DRIFTING SLOOP Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.55 p.m. on 3ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of Worthing pier. The sea was choppy with a gentle breeze from the east....
Aguilla
Dover, Kent.—At 12.20 on the after- noon of the 1st of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had sprung a leak and needed help off the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 12.35. The...
Dane
OCT. 17TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
- At about 1 A.M. the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel was standing into danger near the Middle Binks. A light, variable wind was blowing. The sea was smooth. At 1.15 A.M. the...
News
A right royal occasion at PlymouthThe poor weather didn't dampen spirits when HM The Queen named Plymouth's new £2M Severn class lifeboat on 23 July 2003. The Duke of Edinburgh accompanied The Queen at Queen Anne's Battery...
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Marie Suzanne
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — 6th March, 1939. The crew of the fishing boat Marie Suzanne, of Ostend, had abandoned their sinking vessel in a small boat, but they were picked up by the Dutch motor vessel Jutland and landed at Dover.—Rewards,...
Scottish Fishermen's Gift.
Two fiskermea of Fifeshire ver« rewarded by the lastitutioa for towing ia another boat, disabled in » rough sea. They returned the rewards saying, "the restitution requires more funds instead of taking donations from...
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Santa Gata and Norwegian Tanker Realf
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
Maida
Dunbar, East Lothian. On the 18th June, 1961, at 8.40 in the morning messages were received from the coast- guard that a yacht in the Forth needed help but had been lost to view from the shore. Various messages were received, but all were...
Gipsy
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The ketch Gipsy, of Youghal, returning from Cork, with no cargo or ballast, on the 25th March, found that with a strong head wind and an ebb tide she could not enter the harbour; she therefore ran for shelter under...