LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Italo-Balbo
MARCH 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. The Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the south-west Goodwin Buoy.
A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. At 4.50 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles...
Beech Holm
AYR.—While the barque Beech Holm, of Sunderland, bound from Ayr for Cape Town with a cargo of coal, was being towed out of the harbour on the evening of the 28th March, the tow-rope slipped from her, and before it could be recovered she...
Boy Ben
At 7.15 P.M.
on 19th September, when a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.W. accom- panied by a rough sea, the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired signals denoting that a vessel was in distress, and about the same time a...
Rosyth
Early on the morn- ing of the 26th April the steamer Rosyth, of Dundee, bound from Goole to Bou- logne with a cargo of coal, ran on to the Goodwin Sands E. by N. of the Brake light-vessel. The coastguard reported her, and the motor life-boat...
A Dinghy (5)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Worthing police reported that a dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile off Lancing beach. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 12.43...
Virtala
INJURED ENGINEER At 8.5 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Virtala had radioed for medical assistance for an injured engineer, reporting that the engines were out of...
H.M.S. Barcombe
Islay, Hebrides. At 9.40 on the night of the 13th of January, 1958, the the Kilchoman coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Bar- combe was aground on Oronsay. At 10.5 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a slight sea...
Delightful (3)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
Fred
In response to guns from the East Goodwin Light- vessel indicating a vessel was on that part of the sands, the Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at 8.30 A.M. on the 10th March. A passing steamer kindly towed the Life-boat part of the way...
Trade Winds
Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. — Shortly after eight o'clock on the even- ing of the 13th of August, 1957, the pier master noticed that a yacht was in difficulties off Sand Point. Fifteen minutes later the yacht flashed S.O.S.,...