LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flirt
Margate, Kent.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was overdue. At 1.18 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.
IT) was launched in a heavy sea, with...
Rolf Jarl
LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer...
Beacon
Margate, Kent. — At 12.14 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1948,.
the coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles to the north-north- west, and at 12.30 the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
Pat IV
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...
The S.S. Foch Rose
Walmer, Kent.—At 6.5 on the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Foch Rose, of Liverpool, which had a crew of twelve, had run aground on Oldstairs Shoal. At 6.30 the life- boat Charles Dibdin,...
None (3)
Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
Aquila
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...
None
Dover, Kent - At 1.50 p.m. on 8th April, 1970, the life-boat had just returned to her moorings from an earlier service call which had proved fruitless when the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three men were cut off by the tide on...
Sea Venture
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT IN FOG Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 6th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Sea Venture was overdue. She had last been seen south of Newcombe buoy at...
Andy Cap
MOTOR YACHT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 12th September, 1962, the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis had just reached her moorings after an exercise when the east pier watchman reported that a yacht...