LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Squib II
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 19th May a telephone message was received at the pierhead from Canvey "Island that the small yacht Squib II, of Westcliff, had capsized about half a mile from the shore. Her crew of two were...
A Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the evening of the 16th May, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported two men cut off by the tide in Pegwell bay. A gentle east breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of Bradford...
Richland,
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At about 5 P.M. on the 5th December the steam tug Royal Britain, with the lighter Richland, of Newcastle, in tow, was seen making for harbour. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The tow...
Olivia
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 17th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Shambles lightvessel had reported a yacht in need of help near the lightvessel. At 7.20 the life-boat William and Clara...
A Cabin Sloop
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was dismasted two miles south- west of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel.
Ten minutes later the...
The American Steamer Thomas W. Owen
SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...
Arripay
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 30th of January, 1948, the crew of three of the motor barge Arripay, of London, abandoned her in a rowing boat, during a south-westerly gale near the Swin Bell Buoy, with three feet of water in her engine-room....
Beacon
Margate, Kent. — At 12.14 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1948,.
the coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles to the north-north- west, and at 12.30 the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
The lona
Margate, Kent.—At 7.25 in the even- ing of the 10th April, 1948, information was received from the Broadstairs police through the coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties about a mile off Kingsgate. The motor life-boat The Lord...
Radiant Morn
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 5 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of February, 1949, information Was received that the motor trawler Radiant Morn, of Port Oriel, which had a crew of four, was making distress signals and burn- ing flares,...