LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...

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Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—Shortly before noon on the 7th January the Coastguard reported that a ketch was in need of assistance off St. Agnes Head. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 5 were immediately summoned, and the boat proceeded with...

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1951, the police reported that a rubber dinghy with six people in it was drift- ing out to sea off Ingoldmells Point.

At 7.10 the life-boat Anne Allen was...

JANUARY 14TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.

At 6.55 A.M. a message was received from the Hope Cove coastguard that a vessel half a mile S.S.W. of Hamstone Rock required help. A light easterly breeze was blowingand the sea was smooth....

At about 7.30 P.M.

on the 2nd September the fishing boat Redwing, of Poole, was seen to be in difficulties three miles E.N.E. from Peveril Point in a moderate S.S.W. gale with a moderately heavy sea. The Motor Life-boat...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.

— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...