LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Celestina
At 7.45 P.M. on the 1st October the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was called out by flares and rockets which had been seen in a north- easterly direction. About two miles from the east Margate buoy they found the schooner Celestina, of...
Golden Charter
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A Sailboard
Eastbourne: While the station's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Duke of Kent, was out on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, a sailboarder was seen from the shore to be in difficulty and the Coastguard asked...
Fishing Boats
FLAMBOROUGH.—On the 15th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., with a heavy sea, six of the fishing-boats were trying to reach the North Landing, but were unable to do so in consequence of the state of the wind and sea. The...
A Rubber Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.6 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with children on board was adrift one mile off Jaywick, and the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at half-past...
Onyx
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.52 on the night of the 14th May, 1961, a report was received from the Golden Sands holiday camp that a yacht had capsized half-a-mile off shore in Kinmel Bay.
Three minutes later, when the life-boat...
Martaban
POOLE.—On the 27th March, at about 2 A.M., the Poole Life-boat proceeded out in reply to signals of distress shown by the ship Martaban, of Greenock, which had stranded on the Hook Sand, and found that 6 of her crew had left her in one of...
Albert
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1956, the coast- guard reported that a body had been ?een on the north shore. It was believed to be the body of one of six men who had put off in the rowing boat Albert the night...
RETIREMENT
Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie, C.B., D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy, retired in February and his place as ex-officio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, is beingtaken by Rear Admiral G. P. D. Hall,...
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A Naval Aeroplane
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...