LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christina
Torbay, Devon. At 11.13 on the night of the 2nd of July, 1959, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that the police at Torquay had reported a small motor launch broken down a mile and a half off Hope's Nose, Torquay.
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A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN DENSE FOG Walmer, Kent. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that shouts for help had been heard from the promenade from the direction of the sea, and a watchman...
Cramond Baig
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.58 on the evening of the 17th June, 1963, the Southend coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a small boat about a mile off Glenchervie, near the entrance to the...
An Aeroplane (61)
AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...
H.M.S. Hastings
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
An officer of H.M.S. Hastings asked the honorary secretary of the life-boat station if the life-boat could be used to take out thirty seamen, who had been stranded ashore. The warship was...
Poznan, of Gdynia
AUGUST 20TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.16 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a large steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. A light north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
Venscapen and Fox
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 20th November, whilst one of the most violent storms that has visited this coast for many years past was raging, the hull of a vessel was seen off Aldeburgh at about 6.30 A.M.
she appeared to be...
Marigold
On the 1st October the small motor fishing boat Marigold, of Thurso, which had gone out fishing, was overtaken by bad weather and was unable to return to harbour. A watch was kept on her for some time, and at 9 A.M. the Motor Life- boat...
Alice
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.41 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a cargo vessel was listing heavily near Gull Stream Buoy. At 1.53 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No.
3, on...
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...