LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FLEET'S SAFE RETURN Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. At 10 a.m. on igth December, 1963, it was decided to launch the life-boat to stand by at the harbour entrance when the fishing fleet returned to harbour. There was a gale from the...

Troon, Ayrshire - At 11.5 a.m. on 14th March, 1970, the police informed the coxswain of the life-boat that a rubber dinghy with three people on board, which had put to sea the previous evening, had failed to return. The life-boat Connel...

TWO RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED DINGHY Dungeness, Kent. At 12.24 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary honorary secretary that a dinghy had overturned about a hundred yards off shore south of the...

TWO FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Whitby, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, it was decided, in view of the very heavy swell on the harbour bar, to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing vessels...

Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 9 a.m. on 23rd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man was aboard the Lynn- Well lightvessel, and as he could not be lifted by helicopter, the services of the life-boat...

AUGUST 5TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

At ten o’clock at night the resident of a bungalow on the cliffs near Benllech reported to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that signals were being made by torch from a launch...

A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.

The sea was calm and apart from...

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