LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing boat missing A SMALL FISHING BOAT missing, believed to be in the Loch Shell area, was reported to the honorary secretary of Stornoway lifeboat station at 0010 on Thursday, September 9, 1976.

The weather was cloudy...

MATERNITY CASE Galway Bay. At 10 a.m. on loth June, £965, the doctor at Kilronan told the lifeboat authorities that he had a maternity patient who needed immediate hospital treatment and, as there was no other suitable boat available,...

Angle and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.— 21st December, 1932. A steamer in distress was taken in tow by another steamer.—Rewards, Angle, £15 17s. 6d., Tenby, £15 Os. 6d..

WHITHORN.—A vessel having been repotted dismasted in Wigtown Bay on the 9th October, the Life-boat Henry and John Leighton was launched at'3.10 P.M., being in the water in ten minutes from the time the signals were fired to summon the...

Swanage, Dorset - At 3.51 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Swanage bay. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 4.2 in a fresh north westerly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.<...

Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland - At 5.57 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a catamaran sailing in Berwick Bay was reported to have fired a red flare.

At 6.2 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched in a strong west...

I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 646 and 647, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January and February, 1969, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...