LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(from page 83) provided for inshore lifeboats or for conventional lifeboats, with the exception of 70' boats, but that the subject should be kept under review. This duty is now undertaken by the Medical and Survival Committee which...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...

Paddling hard: Boto-X 87 organised by Kennel & Avon Canal Trust raised £7,500 for the RNLI over two davs during the summer. With the support of Devizes and Chippenham branches 120 teams entered the race in inflatable dinghies which... - View image in PDF

Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 6th of February, 1948, the motor barge Glen- wood, of Rochester, bound for Newport in the Isle of Wight, got into difficulties off Dumpton Gap. She was seen by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, which sent...

Margate, Kent - At 2.9 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a small boat with two men aboard was seen drifting off Foreness Point with her outboard motor broken down. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2...

JULY 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.

At 5.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing yacht making heavy weather. Thirty-five minutes later they reported that she appeared to be showing a distress signal. A...

Divers in trouble FIVE PEOPLE in an inflatable dinghy in difficulty on the lee side of Dulas Island were reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Holyhead Coastguard at 1408 on Monday August 21, 1978, and at 1417 the...

AT 8.30 on the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, Mr. Jack Hicks, a Scilly Isles pilot of St. Agnes, tele- phoned the honorary secretary of the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station, Mr. Trevellick Moyle, to say he had heard the...