LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent.—At 7.55 P.M. on the 28th October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported that two steamers had been in collision near the Fork Buoy. A strong squally N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...

Torbay, Devon. At 1.20 a.m. on 2ist December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a red rocket had been seen in a position five to six miles off Dartmouth in the area of Start Bay.

The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent...

Margate, Kent. At 12.41 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized about half a mile off shore at Minnis Bay, Birchington. At 12.55 the life-boat North...

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...

Walmer, Kent - At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, the coastguard informed thehonorary secretary that fire had broken out on board the cabin cruiser Ideaal which was one mile south east of the South Goodwin lightship. The life-boat Charles...

DEC. 8 T H . - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 11.15 A.M. a message was received that an explosion had occurred four miles W.S.W. of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A fresh breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.

At 11.30 A.M. the...

JANUARY 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT At 4 P.M. news was received that a Nor-wegian steamer was ashore near the North Goodwin Light-vessel and that the naval authorities were sending a tug to investigate.

A second message from the...

THE "British Public" has of late mani- fested a considerable degree of dissatisfac- tion at the general state of the Mercantile Marine, a dissatisfaction which is none the less real in fact because it can hardly be said—at least in...