LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 3.55 p.m. on 22nd June, 1969, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties off Beenacry head.

At 4.5 the life-boat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings. The tide was ebbing. The...

Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.

on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. —• At 10.40 on the night of the 27th of January, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that the Scarweather Light- ship had reported flares fourteen miles to the southward, and at 11.10 the motor life-boat William...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 14th of March, 1959, the coaslguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from Buchanness lighthouse that the engine of a motor fishing vessel had broken down about a mile and...

Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...

Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.

At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...

"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in...

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.

—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...