LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8.50 in the morning, on the llth of September, 1950, the Cromer coastguard telephonedthat the Dudgeon lightvessel had re- ported a sailing yacht circling the light- vessel in need of help. Accordingly, at 9.5 the life...

Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.

Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 21st of March, 1951, the life-boat watchman reported a life-boat in a bad position in the bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...

Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1951,, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning flares one mile off the Re- doubt. At 8.30 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched accompanied by the local joint...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.30 on the evening on the llth of August, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Dimcyl was flying a distress signal about two miles north of Lowestoft. She seemed to be trying to make harbour against a...

Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — About 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Sep- tember, 1951, the coastguard reported that flares and a rocket had been seen off Shell Ness Point, and at 10.46 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 12th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had warned off a vessel in a dangerous position one and a half miles south by west of the Goodwin Lightvessel, and at...