LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kopenes
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.45 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, the signal station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M. the motor life-boat...
A Yacht (1)
NOBODY ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.45 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht drifting about a quarter of a mile southwest of the lightvessel,...
Renette
TOW FOR YACHT IN ROUGH SEA Runswick, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th April, 1962, the coxswain and other members of the life-boat crew saw a yacht in difficulties north of Staithes. The honorary secretary was...
Maid of Linney
MOTOR BOAT'S CREW BURN RAGS AS SIGNALS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 5th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting in Freshwater West Bay and was flashing a torch....
Dahlia
MOTOR CRUISER AGROUND NEAR SEA WALL Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares in Seaford Bay, and at 1.50 the life-boat...
Eastern Princess
RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...
Arka
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 30th of August, 1954, the Carnoustie coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Arka, of Gydnia, which had a sick man on board, had run aground one and a half miles...
Silver Queen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Silver Queen appeared to have broken down and was flashing a light about four miles from Margate pier. At 11.24...
A Dinghy (1)
Workington, Cumberland.—At 10.50 on the night of the 21st of May, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy had been reported to be drifting towards Workington south buoy. The life-boat Man- chester & Salford XXIX...
A Catamaran (1)
Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...