LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the police reported that a girl was missing on the island of Eigg. At 1.45 the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was...

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.20 on the morning of the 19th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy was in diffi- culties two miles east of Dungeness Point. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At four o'clock on the morning of the 18th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the coaster Galtee with a cargo of barium ore was making water thirty miles south of Hook Head.<...

RADIO CAROLINE CALL Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 11.25 a-mon 27 ch January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Caroline, a wireless transmitting station in Ramsey Bay, was suffering from...

Drifting, offshore wind THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Macduff lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1346 on Thursday, July 15, that a small boat had suffered engine failure some two miles north west of the lifeboat station and...

SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At about 9.40 A.M. a request came from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to land an injured man, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was...

FOR THE FIRST TIME ever the RNLI had two different stands at Earls Court and for many of the thousands of visitors there was no doubt that the lifeboats were stars of the show. The spotlight fell on us time and again allowing us to give a...