LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Atlantic
Salcombe, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning, on the 17th of April, 1950, the Greystones coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat seemed to be in difficulties three and a half miles west of Bolt Head. At 10.9 the life- boat Samuel and...
Marguerite T.
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.31 on the night of the 21st of August, 1951, the signal station made a report.
The yacht Marguerite T., of Lowestoft, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was in a dangerous position...
Gwylan
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1953, the life-boat Aguila Wren was launched for a routine exercise. She pa- trolled the area in which some dinghies were sailing in a local regatta, and about four...
Royal Exchange
Aith, Shetlands. — At 11.25 on the night of the 24th of October, 1953, a crofter telephoned the coxswain that a fishing boat was making distress signals at The Rona, off Aith Voe.
Five minutes after midnight the life- boat...
Alouette de Mer
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the...
Little Dick
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of the life-boat station. A moderate south-west...
The Long Sand Lightship
HARWICH.—On the 30th January the Kentish Knock Light-vessel telephoned to Ramsgate that the Long Sand Lightship was flying a distress signa?, and a message was at once despatched by telegraph to Harwich to that effect. On receipt of the...
Hawthorn
During a strong W.S.W. breeze at about 7.30 P.M. on the 21st July a ketch was observed trying to make the harbour; she missed stays, drifted to eastward, and struck the bar just off the east pier. The crew of the Life-boat Michael Henry were...
Inset- the Red Arrows
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Halloween
HOPE COVE.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was ashore at Sewer Mill Sands on the 18th January, the Alexandra Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M., and proceeded to her assistance during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea. She...