LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frolic
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles...
Emma and John
.—-At 11 o'clock on the night of the 19th December, a message was received by telephone reporting that a vessel was making distress signals off the Hook Sands at the entrance of Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Hamar was promptly launched...
An Aeroplane (24)
MARCH 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 11.15 in the morning Croyde coastguard reported to Appledore that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea. The same information was given to Ilfracombe by the resident naval officer. The...
La Corbieri
Salcombe, Devon. — Late on the night of the 7th of August, 1952, a report was received that flares had been seen, and at 11.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched, with the honorary secretary, Commander A. C. Roberts, on...
Rapparee
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork - At 8.40 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, it was learned that the motor launch Rapparee had developed engine trouble and could not be contacted. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose slipped her moorings at 8.50 in a fresh breeze...
Chuff Chuff
Margate, Kent. The honorary secretary was notified by the coastguard at ii.12 p.m. on 8th June, 1965, that flares had been observed about one mile off Margate pier. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. ir) was launched at 11.31 on...
Olive (1)
OCT. 27TH - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.
It was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F.
aeroplane, engaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten...
Tijl Uilenspiegel (1)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Mary J. Masson
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...
A Motor Boat
Tor bay, Devon - At 11.28 p.m. on I4th July, 1966, a motor boat on hire from Ter'gnmouth was reported overdue. The owner was searching along the coast. It was decided if the boat was not traced by daylight the life-boat and a helicopter...