LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1954, two fishermen who had just come in from sea told the life-boat coxswain that a motor-boat had a broken rudder in Pegwell Bay. At 6.35, in a flooding tide, the life-boat...
Mermaid
Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...
Helena
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Helena could be seen to be in difficulties five miles north-north-west of Staithes. About 1.30 she made a...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, four men were cut off by the tide under the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Seaford. One of them swam to Cuckmere. There the police informed the Newhaven coastguard who passed the news...
The Aberdeen Trawler Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—The Aber- deen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 25th Octo- ber, 1939, and, as already described, the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the...
A Dinghy
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coxswain received a message from the president of the Eastbourne sailing club that a dinghy had capsized two hundred yards off the promenade. The club members were...
The Netherlands Motor Vessel Musketier
SEVEN MEN RESCUED FROM DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Anstruther, Fife. At 9.30 on the morning of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Netherlands motor vessel Muskctier of Groningen, was aground on Balcomie...
Aurelia
TENDER AND CABIN CRUISER BOTH BREAK DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tender from the Rhyl yacht club had broken down in an attempt to tow in the...
Vulfrano
CABIN CRUISER AGROUND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a cabin cruiser was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties off Warden Point. There was a full gale from the south-west with a rough sea. The life-boat...
A Sailing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.46 on the evening of the 8th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small sailing boat had capsized a mile off Lancing, and that four people had been in the water for about twenty...