LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Starshine II
YACHT RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.45 a.m. on 23rd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed approximately half a mile west from Margate Hook Beacon. A helicopter was sent to investigate...
Wendy
Dover, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 6th of May, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard passed on information from the Seabrook police that a small sailing craft was drifting without lights off Seabrook. At ten o'clock the life-boat Southern...
Volante
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the Tongue lightvessel that the local trawler Volante had sunk three- quarters of a mile south of South Knock Buoy,...
The S.S. Keynes
Walmer, Kent. — At 10.58 on the morning of the 10th of November, 1950, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a wireless message from the S.S. Keynes, of Lon- don. She had a man on board who was in need of immediate...
Karagola
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.50 in the morning of the 28th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship between North Foreland and Broadstairs, making for Ramsgate, had signalled by lamp that water was entering her engine room and...
The S.S. Mathilda
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...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...
Fram
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and...
A Helicopter
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
Venus
SAILING FAMILY RESCUED Dover, Kent. At 5.34 p.m. on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, a message was received that a yacht was in difficulties and was trying to make the harbour in a fresh to strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...