LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The crew at Moelfre, Anglesey. - View image in PDF

Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 4th of February, 1952, a strong north-easterly gale was blow- ing and the sea was heavy. The Whitby fishing vessel Lead Us was at sea, and at noon she wirelessed asking if it were possible to...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.30 a.m. on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Callihaun was adrift about two miles south of the Breaksea lightvessel.

The life-boat Blanche and Arthur Harris...

FISHING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR Workington, Cumberland. At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secietary that red flares had been seen north-east of Maryport. The life-boat Manchester and Salford...

CRASHED INTO SEA At 9.55 a.m. on 26th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Royal Naval authorities at Portland had asked the life-boat to help in searching for a naval aircraft believed to have crashed into the...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 3.1 p.m.

on I3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Monkstone Point. At 3.18 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched with a punt in tow. There was...

Anstruther, Fife - At 4.36 p.m. on i6th March, 1967, a message was received that the wife of one of the light-keepers on May Island required urgent medical attention. The life-boat The Doctors launched at 4.50 with a doctor on...

NOV. 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORK.

SHIRE. At about 7 P.M. information was received from the Withernsea coastguard that a vessel was making S.O.S. signals on her foghorn from the position of the Danish steamer Canada which had...