LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kentish Hoy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...
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YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.
The woman had been unsuccessfully...
The Kanwara
ALONE FROM SALCOMBE TO SKYE Appledore, Devon.—At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles west-south-west of the Westward Ho look-out.] The motor life-boat...
Idler
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.45 on the night of the 1st of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the sailing yacht Idler was in difficulties a mile off Burton Brad- stock, and at 10.0 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland left...
The Hopper No. 19
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Mary and Irish Leader
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, it was reported by the life-boat bowman that a motor fishing boat was flying a signal of distress one mile west- by-north of Ballycotton Light. At 11.55 the...
Deo Gratias and Motor Boat Bella Betty
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...
An American Jet Aircraft
Dover, Kent.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of November, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that an American jet aircraft had crashed off Kingsdown, about one and a half miles east-north-east of Dover, and that the...
Nellie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.44 on the night of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been seen to burn flares one mile off Minster, Isle of Sheppey.
At 10.15 the life-boat Greater...
Adroity
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.29 on the evening of the 12th of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Adroity, of London, had run on the sands about two miles south-east- by-east of the coastguard station. At 7.20 the...