LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Seven rescued ANGLESEY RADIO received a message from the 36' fishing vessel Kia-Ora at 1926 on January 27 to say that she had broken down off Hestan Island, was dragging her anchor in severe weather conditions and needed lifeboat...

Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.

and then had to go on to New...

JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...

• The first edition of The Small-Boat Skipper's Safety Book by Denny Desoutter (Hollis and Carter, £1.95) was published in 1972. The revised second edition published this year is in the light, no doubt, of after thoughts; but it...

Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. — Just before midnight on the 21st of June, 1949, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the pilot cutter Bembridge that a steamer had struck the sunken wreck of the Fort Massac, about one and a half miles...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of December,1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Ilfracombe radio station that the trawler Suzanne Adrianne of Ostend was sinking near the...