LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rothie May
MARGATE, KENT.—During a strong E.N.E. gale and heavy sea on the 4th March signals were reported about 7.15 P.M. Owing to the exceptionally low tide it was only after great difficulty the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriett was launched, and...
Two Meteor Jet Aeroplanes
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
New Appointments and Staff Retirements
Commander H. B. ACWORTH, O.B.E., R.N., has been appointed Assistant Chief Inspector from the ist January, 1964. He was previously District In- spector (General).
Mr. R. D. PIKE has been appointed Assistant District...
Category: Committee
The Sailing Boat Victory
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.32 on the night of the 31st of August, 1954. a man rang up to say that his sailing boat Victory had put out that morning with a crew of two and nine visitors, but had not returned. At 10.50 the life-boat Hearts of...
Kathleen,
SCARBOROUGH.—Two boatmen who were looking out from the Castle Yard, on the morning of the 21st July, observed avessel stranded about three miles N. The weather was thick, no wind was blowing and the sea was moderately rough. The Life-boat...
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...
Hildegard
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in need of help half a mile south-west of Beachy Head. At 7.25 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
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...
The S.S. Haller
At 9 A.M. on the 1st October Coxswain John Haylett was informed that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Scroby Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched with the least possible delay and proceeded to the...
The S.S. Meath
HOLYHEAD.—The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was called out on service on the 1st February by signals of distress shown by the s.s. Meath, of Sunderland, which had stranded at Penrhyn Point in a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a very heavy sea....