LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fox
MAEGATE, KENT, and HARWICH, ESSEX. — At 11.30 A.M. on the 19th August information was received at Margate that a large vessel was ashore on the Longsand. The crew of the No. '2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled, the Life-boat...
The S.S. Lock
The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...
A Yacht
YACHT ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Margate, Kent.—At 10.46 in the morn- in of the 20th of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a Nor- wegian steamer had reported through the North Foreland Radio Station that three men were adrift in a...
Engadine
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 2nd October, 1938, a rowing boat belonging to Westgate, with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties about half a mile N. of the S.E.
Margate Buoy. She was being blown out to...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £148 9s. 8d. on their life-boat day in July, although, with the life-boat station temporarily closed since the wreck of the Cullercoats life-boat last April, it could not be held as usual...
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Dover, Kent.—On the morning of the 3rd June six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
An Aeroplane (8)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
The Oyster Smack Royal Native
TOW FOR OYSTER SMACK AFTER BREAKDOWN Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing flares off North Foreland. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Margrit Angelika
Ramsgate, Kent - At 9.5 a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard at Deal to inquire whether any distress calls or advice from lightvessels had been received regarding a German ship aground on the Goodwins...
Ariel
Dover, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard reported that the motor boat Ariel needed help near the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 7.51 in a very rough sea....