LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inchworm
LOST PROPELLER Margate, Kent. At 7.7 p.m. on 9th October, 1963, the pilot office at Margate told the honorary secretary that a boat was flashing a light near Foreness Point.
The coastguard was informed of the incident, and...
The Dory Shetlander I
Walmer, Kent. At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small blue yacht had capsized off the Royal Marines' rifle range. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32)...
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Matilda
JUNE 11TH. - DOVER, KENT. At 4.25 P.M. a message was received from the duty staff officer at Dover that a boat was drifting four miles off the Port War Signal Station, and might have people on board. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
A Vessel (20)
JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...
Elsy, of Vastervik
AUGUST 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.52 in the morning the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel lying on the Goodwin Sands.
He telephoned the coastguard station for confirmation and at 9.40 the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary...
The Former German Yacht Hildgund
JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1.56 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported red flares five miles south-south-east of Leathercoats. A moderate south-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was rough.
The motor life-boat,...
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
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A Rubber Dinghy (1)
JULY 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.15 P.M. the Ramsgate naval base asked the life-boat crew to stand by from 3 P.M.
This they did. An hour later they were asked to go out to a rubber dinghy reported to be off Birchington with...
New Skylark
APRIL 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the naval base reported a fishing boat in difficulties off Foreness Point, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 P.M....