LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mrs Instance, one of the Falmouth ladies' guild's most ardent collectors, and mother of one of the committee members, was photographed with lone atlantic yachtsman, Gerry Speiss, shortly after his triumphant arrival at Falmouth.... - View image in PDF

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.58 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Needles coastguard reported that the S.S. Aliki was out of control off Brook Ledge. As the Bembridge life- boat was already out on service, the S.G.E. put out at...

Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah informed the motor mechanic that her husband's boat had broken down with engine trouble off Buddon Point., At two o'clock...

MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 4.30 A.M. it was reported from Rhoscolyn that a ship was ashore at Penrhos Point, near the South Stack. The weather was calm.

The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 5...

At 10 P.M. on the 3rd March the Coastguard received a telephone message from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel stating that a vessel was making distress signals on the Kentish Knock Sands. Within a quarter of an hour the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza...

Cromarty.—At 10.30 in the morning, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the Wick Radio station telephoned that a vessel, off the Cromarty Sutors had asked for help. At 10.45 the life-boat James Macfee was launched. There was a heavy swell with a...

Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a boy was adrift on an inflated rubber mattress off Towyn. At 11.15 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched in a slight sea. There was...

SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...