LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was showing two red lights about four miles north-north-east of Margate Pier.

At 4.30 he reported that she was...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 15th day of March, 1860, Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report...

Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 17th February the Mablethorpe coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Saltfleet Haven. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate ground sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was...

Workington, Cumberland. At 6.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the trawler Ailsea had broken down with engine trouble half- way between St. Bees and Meikle Ross in the Solway Firth...

At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...

Large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross .Sand at 5.30 A.M. during a fresh breeze from the S.W. on the 1st February, and the Cockle Lightship fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat was promptly launched, sailed to the sand,...

50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, December 1940 issue Four Months of War The first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service...