LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vera
Southwold, Suffolk.—At 12.32 P.M.
on the 19th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor and sailing yacht, to the southward of Southwold, was making very heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, and...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about midnight on the 16th September, 1938, it was learned that a man—a member of the local committee—was very ill with appendicitis, and that it was important that he be taken to hospital at Penzance...
Maid Margaret and Maid Mary
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.
They...
Jane and Maid of Erin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.
Dorothy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard pasted on a message from a steamer that the yacht Dorothy, of Colchester, was in need of help, two miles east of the South-west Bawdsey buoy. At 7.53 the No...
Martha
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 10.15 on the night of the 29th of July, 1954, a message was received that a man had returned to the harbour in a sailing boat with the news that a motor boat had broken down two miles east of East Pier. At 10.55...
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Lillibet
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.17 on the morning of the 19th of August, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Kentish Knock lightvessel that the yacht Lillibet was proceeding towards Middle Knock buoy with her...
Suzanne
FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah...
Rubber Mattresses
HELICOPTER FOR BOYS Hoylake, Cheshire. At 4.35 p.m.
on 28th May, 1964, the Formby coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that two schoolboys had been seen on what was assumed to be a rubber dinghy, drifting out to sea a...