LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oriole
WATERLOGGED YACHT BEACHED ON MUD FLAT Selsey, Sussex. At 5.17 on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, a local fisherman, who was preparing to go to sea, saw red flares being fired from a ketchrigged boat about a mile north-east of the...
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
Jumpahead
WHITE FOR DANGER At 6.32 p.m. on the same day, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran lay beached at Scratchells bay near the Needles; her crew were flying a white shirt at the mast and she was apparently damaged. There...
Jens S.
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 2.42 a.m. on 3ist July, 1967, it was learnt that a vessel had fired red flares two and a hah0 miles south east of the Scarweather lightvessel. At 3 o'clock the lifeboat William Gammon - Manchester and...
Zircon (1)
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
A Boat
Two calls A RED FLARE was sighted off shore by the honorary secretary of Withernsea lifeboat station and a shore helper at 2025 on Sunday July 27, 1980. Maroons were fired and while the two men were preparing the D class inflatable lifeboat...
The S.S. Empire Facility, of London
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
Sarah Elizabeth
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull and North Sand Head light-vessels on the 14th January, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, and Christopher Waud, Bradford, of Broadstairs, left their stations at 7.45 P.M....
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
Mandalay
NORTH DEAL—The coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Somerville was called, at about 1.30 A.M. on the 12th December, by the Coastguard, who informed him that guns and rockets were being fired by the Gull light-vessel. He at once summoned the crew,...