LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dawn Wind
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.45 P.M. on the 12th July the Cliff End coastguard reported that a disabled motor yacht was at anchor in the entrance to Christchurch harbour, and was in danger of drifting ashore. A moderate S.S.W. gale was...
Marlene Dorlores
A FOUR HOURS' SEARCH Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.24 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, the coastguard reported distress signals about five miles south-by-west of the station. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 5.45 in...
A Motor Launch
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—On the night of the 14th of April, 1948, the Civic Guard telephoned that a boat was in distress in the bay, and at 11 o'clock the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosvueller was...
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
Easting
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.14 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Lundy and Hartland coastguards reported a yacht to the south-east of Lundy Island which appeared to be in difficulties, and the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was...
A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.41 in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a broken down motor boat and a rowing boat were drifting northwards, on the ebbing tide, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and...
Kingfisher IV
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the...
Silver Wake
Dover, Kent.—At 12.48 in the morn- ing of the 16th of January, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Llanstephan Castle had reported that a Sea Scout launch had broken down five miles south of Folkestone, and the life-boat...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 8.30 in the evening of the 31st of May, 1949, the Coast Life-saving Service at Blackwater reported that a fishing boat, which had been at anchor close inshore since noon, had now hoisted a flag, and the...
Peganda
Dover, Kent.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 1st of August, 1949, a yacht was seen by the life-boat mechanic to have broken down outside the harbour, and at 8 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A moderate...