LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 4TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. A punt with two people on board was missing, but came ashore without help. - Rewards, £11 14s..

Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.

There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...

Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...

During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.

• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...

7th De- cember. Two boys in a boat had got lost in a fog, but made land unaided.

The father of one of the boys gave the life-boat crew fifty guineas in appre- ciation of their search. — Rewards, £24 8s. 6d..

WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...

27th February.

The Spanish steamer Luchana, of Bilbao, dragged her anchors, but did not require help.—Rewards, £6 13s..