LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Corporate fundraising When would you think of all these things together: a car, a train, a cruise ship, a bank and a shop? Are they perhaps all the items you need for a perfect holiday? In fact they are all things that the RNLI corporate...

HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—The Coastguard on duty haying observed a vessel aground on the East Hoyle bank, while a S.W.

gale was blowing with a rough sea on the 29th May, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.59 on the night of the 16th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, with a rope round her propeller, was burning oily rags half a mile off Corton beach. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.15 on the night of the 1st of June, 1956. the Orlock coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat was in distress in Don- aghadee Sound. Thelife-boatK.E.C.F., on temporary duty at the station, put out at 9.25 in a...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...

Dover, Kent.—In the evening of the 8th of May, 1952, a moderate southerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and at 6.5 Lloyd's Signal Station reported two men in a rowing boat outside the harbour. At 6.30 the life- boat Thomas Markby,...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of February, 1953, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief keepers and supplies to the Skelligs Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' steamer was on duty elsewhere. At...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights rang up and asked if the life-boat would land a sick man fromthe Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat...