LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted close to the Owers lightvessel. There was a fresh south-westerly wind with a rough sea, and the...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.57 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, a yacht, in a position three miles south east of the Needles, was seen firing red flares. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded at 9.18 on a flooding tide. There was a...

At 4.46 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported firing red flares five miles south of the Needles.

The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at...

Salcombe, South Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, it was learnt that the lighthouse keeper at Start Point had reported a small yacht was burning flares at Peartree Point. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 8.59 in...

A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...

Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.

There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...

Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate the crew 'on a first class service in the...

The following is a complete list of services or attempted services by inshore rescue boats during the months of April, May and June, 1964: Date 1964 April 7 April 9 April 12 April 15 April 20 April 24 April 27 April 30 May i May 2 May 4 May...