LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...

CLINGING TO DINGHY At 12.40 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the Wallasey police told the honorary secretary that two men had been seen clinging to a capsized dinghy a mile north of the Leasowe lighthouse. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on...

Stornoway, Orkneys - At 8.30 p.m.

on I2th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the m.f.v. Flower that a member of her crew had severely injured his leg. The...

St. Helier, Jersey - At 2.45 a.m. on i8th June, 1966, a small fishing boat was reported overdue. There was a light south south westerly breeze with a slight sea. Inquiries were made as to the boat's expected arrival and it was learnt...

Swanage, Dorset. At 10.7 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honor- ary secretary that four canoes on passage from Swanage to Poole appeared to be having difficulty in rounding the Old Harry Rock....

Dover, Kent. — At 5.57 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1955. the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two boys had been cut off by the tide at Big Fall, South Foreland.' At 6.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station,...

Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund...

TOWED TO HOWTH At 5.45 p.m. the next day, the harbour master told the coxswain, in the honorary secretary's absence, that the cabin cruiser Tuanjim was aground on the rocks at Ireland's Eye. The tide was ebbing and would soon be at...