LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...
Sea Witch
FLARES SEEN Margate, Kent. At 12.6 a.m. on 6th July, 1965, a small vessel was reported to be burning a distress flare close to the shore in Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched at 12.19 m a fresh...
A Yacht and a Motor Boat
SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.6 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a yacht and a motor boat were reported in distress between Bembridge Harbour and St. Helens. There was a strong southwesterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide...
Queen of Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.
The life-boat Crawford and...
Sea Lavender
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.
on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience...
Bogus Distress Signals
MR. HECTOR HUGHES, Labour M.P. for Aberdeen North, raised the question of recent bogus distress signals fired at sea off the Scottish coast in the House of Commons in January.
Emphasizing that Scottish life-boat men had put...
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Jacqueline
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.15 a.m. on 20th January, 1965, the honorary secretary received a request from a doctor in St. Ives for the use of the St. Ives lifeboat to take an injured seaman, with suspected fractured ribs, from the Belgian...
The Angling Boat Lady Molly
STRAPPED ALONGSIDE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on i6th April, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by the Hastings and St.
Leonards Angling Club that distress flares had been fired from the angling boat Lady Molly...
Falcon
Barrow, Lancashire - At 5 p.m. on 24th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Falcon appeared to be in difficulty at the south end of Walney.
The IRB was launched to investigate at...
Minoru
Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...