LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shahjehan
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.27 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1955,the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Galloper light- vessel had reported that a motor yacht two miles north-east of the light- vessel had fired red...
Sgumain
YACHT TOWED IN WITH GALE IMMINENT Exmouth, Devon. At 11.30 on the night of the 25th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had an auxiliary yacht under observation whose engine had broken down off Sidmouth beach....
Montbretia
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported a mes- sage from the motor fishing vessel Montbretia, of Hull, asking for help as her engines had failed whilst on passage from...
Four Drifters
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 7th of October, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a drifter was firing red rockets about a mile east-south-east of the coastguard station, and at 8.52 the life...
S.S. Alphald
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.35 A.M. on the 22nd October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer s.s. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W.
Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked s.s....
Blacktail
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 9.30 on the night of the 9th Decem- ber, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a director of the Boston Sea Fishing Company that the skipper of their trawler Blacktail had...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th October, 1963, the Island Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Association asked for the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on the Island of Brechan, west of Sark, who had fallen down...
A Steamer (5)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. A steamer had stranded off Crail, but when the life-boat coxswain hailed her he was thanked and told that help was not needed. - Rewards, £9.
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
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Inigo
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.45 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, it was seen that the yacht Inigo off the north end of the South Falls Head required assistance. There was a gale from the north with a very rough sea.
The tide was flooding....