LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in...

JANUARY 17TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

Distress signals had been reported, but neither the life-boat nor a naval aeroplane which took part in the search could find anything. - Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..

BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...

Coxswain Sam May, of South wold.

SAMUEL C. MAY, at one time Coxswain of the Southwold Life-boat, died on 18th. May last after a long illness. He was sixty-three years old, and was appointed Second Coxswain in 1891, seven...

125 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1864 issue LIFEBOATS FOR THE FRENCH COAST We have much pleasure in being able to report that the French Government have decided to place some lifeboats on the coasts of France....

Torbay, Devon. At 12.3 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Levermead beach and that a man could be seen in the...

Sick Russian A RUSSIAN TRAWLER which, having a sick man on board, might need help was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1630 on Friday, Sep-tember 3. Later, at 1900, a further message was...

OCTOBER 12TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 11.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel was flashing signals about two and a half miles off-shore, and later they reported that she had fired a red Very...