LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Una
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. — Shortly after 10.30 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet lighthouse that the Barrow Deep light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and...
Helen
Barrow, Lancashire. — At 8.55 on the night of the 7th of July, 1952, whilst the coxswain was on duty aboard the pilot boat, a message was intercepted from Morecambe Bay Lightvessel to Seaforth Radio that a small yacht bound for Fleetwood...
Velma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the early morning of the 14th of July, 1952, the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a call from the Gorton Lightvessel, received through the...
Tango
Walmer, Kent. At 4.51 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the East Goodwin lightvessel had reported a motor yacht burning red flares about half a mile east of the...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
Rosalind
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER IN FULL GALE Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 25th August, 1962, the harbour constable told the motor mechanic that a yacht was broached to four and a half miles east-north-east of...
Pandora
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.20 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been reported about five miles west of Aberaeron.
The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 9.55...
Penguin
At 10.59 a.m. on 13th May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that flares were seen west of Rye harbour entrance. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 11.10 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was one and a...
Nicolene
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.23 p.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles south west of the Sunk lightvessel. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate...
Vivien Jean
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.29 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was firing red flares a mile and a half east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a moderate...