LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Giacomo Matteotti
Walmer, Kent. — At 10.55 in the morning of the 26th of January, 1949, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the South Goodwin Lightvessel that a ship was aground about one and a quarter miles north-east of her, and the motor life-boat...
Jenny III, Happening
ENGINE TROUBLE It was learned on 7th August, 1971, that the Dutch Barge Jenny III, with a crew of four, had been standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel during the night with engine trouble. Arrangements to tow the barge were made with a...
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...
Category: Services
Try Again
Torbay, Devon. At 1.45 early on the morning of the 15th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing boat had left Dartmouth a few hours earlier and had not returned. Further enquiries were being made...
Foxfield
INJURED IN EXPLOSION Dover, Kent. At 2.8 p.m. on 3rd February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Foxfield had reported an explosion on board and needed the services of a doctor, life-boat and a tug....
Perseus
ABANDONED SHIP Walmer, Kent. At 11.45 p.m. on 5th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Perseus of Bremen had radioed that she was on fire and that the crew were abandoning ship about 15 miles...
Ferdinand Retzlaff
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...
Sea Eagle II
SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...
The S.S. Goldstone and the S.S. Naranco (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent. At 3 46 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of both stations that the s.s. Goldstone of Panama had collided with the s.s. Naranco of Gijon, Spain,...
An Auster Aircraft (3)
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...