LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Persons Time of rescuedfrom 1955. Launching. shipwreck.

Jan. 3. 4.35 p.m. Fishing boats, of Pittenween. Anstruther life-boat escorted boats.

,, 3. 8.10 p.m. M.F.V. No. 51, of...

Dr. E. J. Gordon Wallace, the honorary medical adviser to the Weymouth life- boat station, has been awarded a certificate on vellum for the part he played when the Weymouth life-boat put out to a yacht on ipth June,...

Disabled yacht A YACHT AT ANCHOR near Lune No 1 Buoy, Morecambe Bay, but having a rough time was reported to Fleetwood Coastguard by an auxiliary coastguard at Knott End at 1525 on Wednesday September 10, 1980. It was learned that the yacht...

Crew transferred to casualty in near-gale conditions The chief of operations has written to Bembridge lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their efforts during a five-hour service in rough conditions on 14 July...

Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At...

From July to September the new fast inshore rescue boats were launched on service thirty-three times and rescued seven lives. The following is the list of services or attempted services: Date Station 1963 July 10th: Mudeford July...

26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...