LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.27 on the evening of the 6th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a light or flare had been seen to the south-west of Walton pier, and at 7.55 a vessel was seen to burn...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Ryde police had reported a motor boat drifting off Sands Head buoy. The motor boat's engines ap- peared to have...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was...

IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...

Workington, Cumberland. At 4.30 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed by a pilot that the pilot boat had not returned to harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 8.30 in a...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1955, a man at Kinsale telephoned to say that the motor fishing boat Inis Caol, of Dublin, had left for the fishing grounds the previous day, with a crew of four, but had...