LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Madeline Rickmers (1)
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
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Conqueror
— At 3.10 A.M. on the 15th January informa- tion was telephoned from the Pier Head that flares had been seen about one and a half miles from the pier in the direction of the Lowway Buoy.
Putting off in a moderate S.W. gale,...
Sarah Ann
Caister, Norfolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 10th July, 1939, a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling...
Point Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—-At 1.20 P.M.
on the 30th July, 1939, a man reported to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton, which was out with anglers, was flying a distress signal about...
Susie
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.42 in the morning of the 28th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles west-south-west of Clacton pier, and at 10.50 the Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The sea...
An Aeroplane
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of April, 1948, the Royal Naval Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed about one and a half miles south-east of the...
Wendy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.30. in the afternoon of Sunday the llth of July, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized half a mile off Winchelsea beach, and the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at...
St. Joseph
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.35 in the afternoon on the 4th of November, 1949, a fishing vessel at the north end of the bay was seen to be flying a distress signal. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 3.42 in a rough...
A Dinghy (4)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.10 a.m. on 7th November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted a quarter of a mile east of the north pier. At 1.18 thelife-boat Khami slipped her...