LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maurice Georges
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...
Winifred
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.17 on the morning of the 6th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties off Beachy Head. At 9.36 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a very rough sea. A...
Widgeon II
Dover, Kent. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 25th of May, 1958, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares off South Foreland. At 1.10 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary...
A Fishing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 18th of October, 1955, five men put off in a fishing boat to go to Barrahead to ferry sheep to Mingulay, but the weather worsened during the day and their families became anxious. At 4.30...
Stroma
FLARE OFF DOVER At 8.12 p.m. on yth September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen one mile south-west of Dover. With the tide at one hour's flood the life-boat Southern Africa put out into a...
A Rubber Dinghy
Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly...
A Ship's Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire. Co. Dublin. At 6.15 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1960, the keeper of the East Pier lighthouse informed the honorary secre- tary that a ship's boat was drifting two and a half miles north-north-east of the...
Our Jennie
Weymouth, Dorset. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat needed help two miles east of the Shambles lightvessel. At 8.15 the life- boat Lloyd's was...
A Canoe (1)
Blackpool, Lancashire. At 6.10 p.m.
on 13th August, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a boy was in difficulties in a small canoe south of central pier. The IRB was at once launched in a moderate...
Leon Laura, of Lowestoft
At 7.25 p.m. on fth June, 1966, a vessel was seen flying a distress signal and burning red flares four miles east of the lookout. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick left her moorings at 7.40 in a gentle westerly wind and a slight...