LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loyang
MOTOR YACHT'S ENGINES FAILED Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.25 in the evening of the 6th of July, 1947, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard tele- phoned information, received by the Worthing police from a resident, that he had seen a motor...
Despite Force 8 Gales Which Made Their Stock Difficult
Despite force 8 gales which made their stock difficult to keep on thetable, the ladies of Ramsey's, IsleofMan, lifeboat guild made £90"at their street fair stall of souvenirs. Many people were attracted towards them by the... - View image in PDF
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Ocean Sprit
The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 25th November, as the life-boat shore signal- man had heard distress signals appar- ently coming from a vessel on the north end of the Barber Sands. Nothing...
Elsina
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the evening of the 5th April the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties one mile S.W. of the harbour, and that a motor boat which had gone to her help had broken down in the...
Acteon
Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...
Snowdrop
LOWESTOFT.—At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of January, the second coxswain of the Life-boat observed that the trawler Snowdrop, of Ramsgate, had run aground on the north part of the Newcome Sand, during an E. by S. wind and a...
Lifeboat Services from Page 46
from page 46 yacht at 2006 and a lifeboatman was put on board. Six of the passengers were transferred to the lifeboat and the yacht taken in tow to Weymouth where the six were taken to hospital for a medical check.
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Sea Clipper
Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht in tow of the German steamer Helios, which was twenty-four miles east of Ramsgate, needed the help of a life-boat....
H.M. Submarine Narwhal
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 4th of April, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that the keeper at Davaar light- house had reported a submarine ashore at the entrance to Campbeltown har- bour. At 10.35...