LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The House-Boat Petrina
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...
Ambler
Lost rudder A COBLE NEEDING HELP, with three men on board, was reported to the deputy launching authority of Seaham lifeboat station by Tees Coastguard at 0955 on Sunday November 26, 1978.
The message had been relayed from...
None
Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...
Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 12)
(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
Category: Services
H.M.S. Tug Leigh
DECEMBER 10TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.10 in the evening the naval control informed the life-boat coxswain that H.M.S. tug Leigh was sending out an SOS signal. The night was very dark and cold, with a south-east gale blowing and a...
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Hero
OCTOBER 23RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At about 8.20 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Hero was aground north of the South Goodwin Lightvessel.
A...
The S.S. Hybert
The S.S. Hybert, of Wilmington, U.S.A., a vessel of some 6,500 tons, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, about 7.20 A.M. on 6th November, in a light breeze.
She had a crew of thirty-six and a general cargo on board, and...
An Aeroplane and a Naval Drifter
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...