LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jodon
SAFELY TO MARGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.47 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was flashing the international distress signal one mile north of Kingsgate. There was a gentle...
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
Svenska
Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Silver Queen
Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Silver Queen appeared to have broken down and was flashing a light about four miles from Margate pier. At 11.24...
Centaurus
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard reported that the Liberian steamer Centaurus had been in collision with an unknown tanker some eighteen miles east-by-south from Ramsgate. The life-boat...
Notre Dame de Calais
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 7th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a French fishing vessel appeared to be aground half a mile off Quern Buoy. At 7,15 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings.
The Amphibious Motor Jeep Half Safe
Walmer, Kent.—About 6.55 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1951, the Deal coastguard telephoned that he could see what seemed to be a boat between four and five miles east-south- east of the coastguard station, drifting north to the...
Stormalong
Walmer, Kent.—At 8.2 on the even- ing of the 12th of July, 1956, Deal coastguard rang up to say that the South Goodwin lightvessel had re- ported that a yacht was in distress near the lightvessel. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...
Mercurius H.
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.30 on the morning of the 26th of November, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a vessel was ashore a mile and a half west of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Gull
Walmer, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1958, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down two miles north-north-west of the South Goodwin ftghtvessel. At one o'clock the life-boat...