LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rodent
Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...
Swift
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...
Prins Alexander
Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...
A Motor Cruiser
Three saved from cruiser on lee shore The rescue of three people from a disabled 25ft motor cruiser, which was only minutes from being driven on to a lee shore in large seas on the Norfolk coast, has earned Coxswain Anthony Jordon of Wells...
Willowpool (1)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...
None (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...
Minnie Flossie
OLOVKLLY, DBVOK.—The ketch Minnie Flossie, of MOford, while lying at anchor off Olovelly during a fresh gale of wind from the N.W., and squally weather, on the evening of the 2nd September, showed a signal of distress. The Life-boat Graham...
Gweyneth
At 2.35 P.M. on the 19th May a telephone message was received stating a yacht was in distress on the Buxey Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was promptly summoned, and the Life-boat, under motor power...
Smiling Morn
At 10 A.M. on I the 10th April information was received ! that a vessel was ashore about two miles ! to the west of Newhaven Breakwater.
The new motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton, which has recently been sent to I...
A Motor Boat (2)
FIVE PEOPLE At 6.45 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a small motor boat with five people on board was adrift in the sound of Barra with engine trouble. The life-boat R.A.
ColbyCubbinNo. 3 was...