LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
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...
Exchequer
A TRAWLER ASHORE Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, a vessel was reported ashore at Lackie Head, near Kinnaird Head, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched two minutes...
Quo Vadis
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 in the morning of the 17th of November, 1948, the pier head coastguard reported that the S.S. Nordic Queen was ap- proaching Southend and wanted to land ten survivors whom she had picked up from the Dutch...
Yacht Cachalot
Dover, Kent.—At 2 P.M. on the llth September the cutter yacht Cachalot, of Ipswich, was seen to be driving towards the breakwater. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the Cachalot was in danger of going on the breakwater...
Progress
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.33 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Progress, a naval cadet training ship, with about thirty cadets on...
Our Boys
Skegness, Lines. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen coming from a fishing boat off Ingoldmells Point. At 4.55 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a rough...
Beaver
Workington, Cumberland. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Beaver, which had sailed from Maryport the morning before, had not...
Snark
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.59 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht, which was drifting east- ward broadside on to the wind, appeared to be disabled about two miles from Birling Gap. The...
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Galway Bay, County Galway.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1957, the local doctor reported that a woman had been attacked by a cow and had been seriously injured.
He asked if the life-boat would...