LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shrimping Boat Sonia
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 28th of January, 1948, local boat- men reported that the shrimping boat.
Sonia, with a crew of three, was two hours overdue. She had put out at three in the morning and was...
Beaulieu
Margate, Kent.—At 1.15 i n the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1948, a tug with a yacht in tow was seen five miles to the northward, making little headway, and at 2.30 the coastguard telephoned that she appeared to have broken down and was...
The S.S. Sudsee
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the morning of the 10th April the Brake lightvessel, on the Goodwin Sands, reported, through the coastguard, that a steamer was aground about a mile and a half E.
half S. from her. A moderate...
A Dinghy (2)
Dover, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 22nd of April, 1959, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with an outboard motor was drifting half a mile south of the signal...
Fiver II
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.
32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...
None (10)
Torbay, Devon. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man had fallen down to the foot of the cliffs at Sharkham Point. At 12.45 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 7.10 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Dymchurch. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate...
J.T. & S.
Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings...
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...
The Pilot Motor Boat Champion
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.19 on the night of the 28th of February, 1957, a message was received from the east pier that a vessel which had just leftthe harbour with a pilot boat in attendance was now sounding her siren and searching the...