LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing...
Mascotte
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.50 in the morning of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht three miles to the north-north- west was flying a two-flag signal and appeared to have stopped in an unusual position. The motor...
Salvia
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.50 in the evening of the 13th of November, 1948, a message was received from Whitehaven that a fishing vessel which had put out from there had not re- turned, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched...
Sunset Over Kent
A photograph taken by Mr. L. H. Shelvey, honorary secretary at Walmer, from the life-boat as she was returning from the Goodwin Sands. - View image in PDF
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Ariadne Johanna
Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...
Two Sabre Aeroplanes
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two Sabre aeroplanes of the R.C.A.F.
had collided near the Wainfleet bomb- ing range and that a parachute had been...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
Ros Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.
the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....
Fishing Boats and Hall Mark
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, a heavy gale sprang up from the south bringing a rough sea and rain squalls.
The fishing fleet was at sea. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched...