LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stroma
FLARE OFF DOVER At 8.12 p.m. on yth September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen one mile south-west of Dover. With the tide at one hour's flood the life-boat Southern Africa put out into a...
Stephen
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT At 1.55 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down and was drifting in moderate seas and a corresponding north-westerly breeze off Ramsgate. At 2.5,...
Vauban
ESCORTED TO ANCHORAGE At 9 p.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a British ship Vauban of Dundee had been in collision seven miles south-west of Dungeness, and needed assistance.
The...
A Dinghy (1)
RUBBER DINGHY Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.50 p.m.
on 7th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was in difficulties about a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat Beryl...
Frigate Bird
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire—At 10.47 in the morning of the 18th of February,1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Frigate Bird had broken down one and a half miles to the southward and at 11.12 the lifeboat Jeanie Speirs...
Just Reward
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 10.4 on the morning of the 21st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a coble had been seen flying a distress signal two and a half miles east of Boulmer. At 10.24 the life-boat...
Our Jennie
Weymouth, Dorset. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat needed help two miles east of the Shambles lightvessel. At 8.15 the life- boat Lloyd's was...
Polly Cook
Workington, Cumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of the 2nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was drifting a mile and a half off Working- ton. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX left her...
The Motor Fishing Coble Florence
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the after- noon of the 7th December, 1961, con- ditions deteriorated considerably at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing coble Florence had approached the har- bour twice and both times had to putto sea again....
The Tom Tit, of Dover
Dover, Kent;—At 1 P.M. on the 1st November a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a small boat was making signals of distress east of Dover harbour.
A moderate N. breeze was blowing, with a...