LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Zoraida
Montrose, Angus. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that the ketch Zoraida was drifting three miles north of Montrose.
The life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
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JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...