LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.5. on the morning of the 30th Nov- ember, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Hada II of Rotterdam was ashore on Sailers bank but in no immediate danger. Forty...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th December, 1961, the medical officer of health for Shet- land rang up the honorary secretary to say that a three-year-old girl on Fair Isle was believed to have...

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AT HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 2nd March, 1962, the coxswain was in radio communication from his own boat with three local motor fishing vessels, which were at sea in deteriorating weather...

Swanage, Dorset - At noon on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Durlston Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched immediately in a light south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was two hours after...

Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 2.30 p.m. on 23rd January, 1967, the coxswain of the seventy foot life-boat intercepted a radio message that the m.v.

Marilene had broken down and required assistance in a position...

Two calls A SURF BOARD sailor, sitting on his board trying without success to paddle back to shore against an offshore breeze was reported to the deputy launching authority of Ramsey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1530 on Friday June 5...

EACH YEAR since 1905, except in wartime, the annual National Service for Seafarers has been held in St Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London, to celebrate the unity of calling of all those who use the sea. At the 1981 service, held on...