LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCT. 2 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but it was reported later that it was a false alarm. - Rewards, £18 12s..
Fortuna, of Gothenburg
On the 10th Sept.
the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then...
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now...
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 7th of Mav, 1055, the Fail-light coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Eastbourne police that two men were adrift in a dinghy two miles off Langney Point....
A Sailing Dinghy
Poole, Dorset.—At 11.40 on the night of the 29th of April, 1956, the police rang up to say that a sailing dinghy with two young men aboard was over- due from a trip within the harbour.
The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was...
A Boat
Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 3rd September, 1939, information was received from the police that a small boat was in difficulties outside the breakers in Woollacombe Bay. A squally W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy...
Suzy Jane
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The police reported at 10.55 P-m- on 4tn July> I965» that flares had been seen south-east of Caldy Island. The life-boat Henry Cotnber Brown was launched at 11.12 in a light northerly breeze. There was a slight...
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
A Speed Boat
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....