LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bluebird
Margate. Kent.——At 12.55 in the early morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht at anchor half a mile north-west of the coastguard station was making heavy weather. There was a rough sea, and a strong north...
Mercure
Margate, Kent.—At 3.5 in the after- noon, on the 26th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht, which appeared to have broken down, was drifting four miles north- east by east of the pier. At 3.13 the life-boat The Lord...
Golden Bough
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 9.35 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, a resident reported seeing flares. At 9.50 the life-boat William and Laura was launched in a moderate sea with a freshening north-westerly breeze blowing. Two and a half...
The Converted Motor Torpedo Boat M.T.B. No 102
Selsey, Sussex. — At 9.12 in the morning of the 19th of September1951, returning fishermen reported that a converted motor torpedo boat was moored to the Ledge Buoy three miles south of Bracklesham, with her engines broken down,...
The Lady Betty
On the 17th August the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a dinghy, with one man on board, had capsized near Ledge buoy. The motor life-boat Langham was just about to be launched when the man swam ashore. At the same time the coastguard...
Replete
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—The Brixham fishing boat Replete, with a crew of four, was trawling off the Wolf lighthouse on the night of the 14th July. She caught fire, and the crew, after trying to get the flames under control, had to abandon her...
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the afternoon of the 9th September the coastguard telephoned that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Pen las Rocks, about ten miles from Holyhead, and was lying seriously injured. All attempts to rescue him had failed...
Persevere
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...
Pandora
Dover, Kent.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 16th of June, 1956, the Sand- gate coastguard passed on a message from the Lloyds signal station that the yacht Pandora, of Ghent, Belgium, had struck a breakwater, and that one of her crew of two...
Alex
ENGINE FAILED Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 8.7 on the night of the 13th of November, 1947, the coastguard reported a flare two miles east of Ryhope. Seaham life- boat was unable to launch owing to the lowness of the tide and the Sunder- land...