LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Barge Yarana
Margate, Kent.—At 2.15 A.M. on the 15th October, 1939, the coastguard telephoned the coxswain that he believed a vessel was burning flares. The coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and was satisfied that they were distress signals. An...
Whitby Lass and Gem
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September, 1952, the coxswain of the motor life- boat reported that the fishing coble Whitby Lass was at sea and that con- ditions on the harbour bar were very dangerous in...
The S.S. Castillo Tordesillas
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the morn- ing of the 1st of February, 1953, a steamer which had been driven on to the breakwater in a strong north- westerly gale with a rough sea, fired distress rockets. At 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
Hassett
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 18th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Hassett, of Grimsby, which had a crew of twenty, had gone ashore north-east of Noss Head. At 1.25 the life-boat...
Dedication
A remarkable demonstration of service has come to the notice of the R.N.L.I, at Douglas, Isle of Man. The devoted helper, who was physically handicapped, was 15-year old David Kelly who died in November.
It is understood...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, i960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at the north end of Ballard Down near Old Harry Rocks. Police and...
St. Gerrard
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.17 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1957, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary he had heard from a pilot that flares were being fired by a boat about one mile south of Arklow har- bour. At 6.30 the...
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PARACHUTE FLARES LIGHT CLIFFS EN SEARCH Aberdeen. At 9.29 on the evening of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a request from the police for help in searching for a man reported to have fallen over the...
A Dredger
Hastings, Sussex - At 11.27 a.m. on 10th May, 1968, the foreman in charge of a dredger off St. Leonards informed the honorary secretary that the three men aboard were in danger and requested the assistance of the life-boat to take them...
Susmar
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...