LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gannet Aircraft (3)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Mary Joy, Just Reward, Floreat & Launch Out
The crew of the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II were assembled at 9 A.M. on the 27th February, as several fishing boats were at sea, and conditions were getting bad. At noon a S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. One of the boats...
Gazeka
Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.45 P.M. on the 24th July a telephone call was received from the owner of the motor yacht Gazeka, of London, who had come ashore from his yacht, which was lying off Blakeney -Point without a rudder and with her engine...
Oceana
Walmer, Kent..—At 11.16 on night of the 14th of June, 1948, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning a flare and her crew shouting for help half a mile north-east of Leathercoat Point, and the motor life-boat Langham, on...
Warragaburra
Dover, Kent.—At one in the morning of the 6th of October, 1948, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that a yacht was making S.O.S. signals in Langdon Bay,, and at 1.20 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...
Jodon
SAFELY TO MARGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.47 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was flashing the international distress signal one mile north of Kingsgate. There was a gentle...
The S.S. Afterglow
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 8th of August, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard sent a message that the S.S. Afterglow, of London, had asked the life-boat to land a man with an injured eye. The Afterglow was due off the...
Omega
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the piermaster had seen some people in a yacht in the harbour waving for help.
At 12.30 the life-boat R.L.P. was...
A Catamaran (1)
Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...
Jewel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.17 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was showing distress signals three and a half miles north-east of Peterhead. At 8.30 the...