LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 25TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.

DONEGAL. Three children were ill with diphtheria and in danger of dying within a few hours if the medicine needed could not be brought to them. There was none on the island. A strong...

Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...

The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of < fishing vessels,...

APRIL 25TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 11.39 in the morning the naval authorities at Dover asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should be launched to an aeroplane north-east of the South Foreland. A moderate north-west wind was blowing,...

On. the 1st January, in response to a report made by one of the Great Eastern Railway Steamers that a vessel was ashore on the South Shipwash Sands, flying signals of distress, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was launched. When nearing...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 25th of March, 1954. the coast- guard telephoned that a red flare had been reported off Selsey. At 9.55 another red flare was seen, and at 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...

As Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating everyone associated with the life-boat service on their splendid achievements during the past...