LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

From ist October to 3ist December, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 19 times. On three occasions, described below, they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Whitstable, Kent. At 5 p.m. on ist...

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At 9.40 A.M.

on the 21st April it was reported that a shrimp boat was dismasted in the roads and in distress. As it was blowing a moderate gale from S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark, Lane was launched, and...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 30th of September, 1953, a woman told the coxswain that a bright light was flashing in the sea three miles north-east of Mallaig, and at 9.40 the life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put to sea....

Man in the Run HEARING FROM the Coastguard, at 1546 on November 9, 1974, that a 999 call had reported that a man had fallen into the Run at Mudeford, both Michael Parker and his wife Sally, the station administrative officer, ran out of...

Expenditure in 1942 was £291,486. That was £12,261 more than in 1941, but much less than in a year of peace. The reason is that while in the last year of peace 16 new motor life-boats were sent to the coast, last year not one - out...

^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.

The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...

Trawler sinking LATE ON THE NIGHT of Thursday June 6, 1985, the 53ft Dutch trawler Lindfar radioed Thames coastguard to say that she was aground, holed and taking water on the northern Gunfleet Sands.

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