LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Day Dream and The Raider
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Northern Queen, of Lowestoft (1)
Aldeburgh, and Lowes toft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 14th February, 1938, the Aldeburgh motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 8.30 A.M. on information from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a fishing smack was in distress several...
Archglen and Empire Fabric
Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...
Dynamo
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.54 in the afternoon, on the 10th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio reported the steamer Dynamo, of Hull, aground two miles south-south-west of Ramsgate. At 4.8 the life-boat...
B.S. Colling
Several fish- ing boats and cobles put out early on the morning of the 24th November, but a strong sea got up and they all returned, except two boats and a coble.
The life-boat crew stood by all the morning and at 1 P.M....
Lone Star
At midday on the 27th January some of the life-boat crew saw a man in a canoe making his way down channel. A squally N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. ' Although the man appeared to be in no need of...
Albion
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...
Casita
On the afternoon of the 25th October the coastguard at Cliff End telephoned that a vessel was burning flares at the mouth of Keyhaven river. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was squally. The motor life- boat...
Eva May
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.
board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...
Kentish Hoy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...