LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Cloud
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the coastguard inspector at Rattray asked if the life- boat would launch to stand by the yacht Silver Cloud, of London, which had a crew of...
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1957, a message was received that an open boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles outside the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 1.28 the life-boat South- ern Africa...
Two New Vice-Presidents
LORD SEMPILL and the Marquess Camden have been elected vice-presidents of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Lord Sempill has served on the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1927 and the Marquess...
Category: Committee
A Yacht
HIGH AND DRY Margate, Kent. At 11.22 a.m. on l6th August, 1964, Mid Barrow lightvessel reported that a yacht was ashore at North Shingles sands. It was low water with a moderate sea and a light southeasterly breeze. A helicopter which had...
Yamilly
Ramsgate, Kent.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1951, the life-boat shore attendant on the East Pier reported a yacht aground in Pegwell Bay. He said that some of her crew were in the water trying to move her....
The Turbocraft Doughty
Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares and rockets were spotted over the Good- win Sands near the wreck of the N.E.
Victory by the life-boat mechanic and others on the sea front. A...
An Ex-R.A.F. Launch
Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the morn- ing of the 20th of March,1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a 30-feet ex R.A.F. launch with two men on board was overdue on a passage from Portland to Torquay and that he had...
Canoes
Walmer, Kent. At 3.18 on the after- noon of the 20th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen from the cliff-top at St. Margaret's two canoeists capsize about a mile off shore in choppy...
The Gaff-rigged Cutter Twilight
MAN TAKEN OFF SINKING CUTTER Dungeness, Kent. At 6.40 on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the gaff-rigged cutter Twilight was ashore one to two miles west of Dengemarsh look-out, but...
A Motor Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...