LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frances Fladgate
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.5 on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a man was very ill on board the collier Frances Fladgate. The vessel was mak- ing for...
Solveig
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.
Eight minutes later the life...
A Glider
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
Sidelights on Stations
Alarmed to see a boat which ap- peared to be in difficulties in heavy seas on I4th April, a public-spirited Blackpool shopkeeper reported the news to the life-boat station. Raising his binoculars to scan the sea, the boat- house attendant...
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Lady Jane
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.55 in the after- noon, on the 8th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning red flares one and a half miles south-south-east of Selsey Bill.
The sea was choppy, with a light...
Lady Sophie
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the Baily lighthouse-keeper informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht which he had kept under observation for twenty-five minutes was...
Emma Ives
The Duke of Northumberland Steam Life-boat was also called out on the night of the 9th November by a telephone message from the Chief Officer of H.M.
Coastguard at Waterloo, stating that a vessel was making signals of...
Johnny Eager
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. — At 5.17 in the evening of the 8th of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Johnny Eager, of Swansea, was making distress signals, and at 5.40 the life-boat William Gammon —...
Blossom
Amble, Northumberland.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing vessel Blossom, of Wick, had broken down in Druridge Bay. The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station...
P535
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 11.44 a.m. on 24th March, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted off Bembridge Ledge. The life-boat Jack Shayler and the Lees was launched at 11.56. There was a fresh...