LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (4)
Ramsgate, Kent. — 9th December, 1938. A motor boat had broken down, but she did not need help as she was being taken safely into Broadstairs by the wind and tide.—Rewards, £8 Is. Qd..
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the morning of the 28th of June, 1952, a radio telegram was received from the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardrossan, that she was making for Campbeltown to land a very badly injured seaman.
She...
A Dinghy (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people in a dinghy fitted with an outboard motor were shouting for help off the south beach.
At...
Oulton
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A vessel was observed by the Coastguard to be stranded on the East Hoyle Spit on the morning of the 6th March, and as the weather appeared to be somewhat threatening, and there being a nasty sea on the bank, it was decided...
Mary Roberts
After watching during the night, the coxswain of the Life-boat observed at 8 o'clock on the following morning a signal of distress, displayed from a schooner at anchor in the Bay. The wind was still blowing a heavy gale from N.N.W., and...
Abide
Swanage, Dorset. — At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that a salvage vessel, working on a wreck south-west of Chapman's Pool, appeared to be in difficulties and later stated that she had hoisted...
Spray and Cabin Cruiser Dolphin
Sal combe, South Devon - At 12.58 p.m. on I2th March, 1967, a motor fishing vessel and a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties off Lannicombe Bay. Conditions were deteriorating and a gale warning was in force. The life-boat The Baltic...
Natuna
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 2.17 p.m. on 15th October, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a yacht three miles north of the north breakwater. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at...
None (3)
Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
Aquila
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...