LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate...

Mudeford, Hampshire-At 1.45 p.m.

on zist April, 1966, a visitor to Mudeford informed a member of the IRB crew that a sailing dinghy had capsized about one mile east of the harbour entrance. The IRB was immediately launched...

Dover, Kent. At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1959, a fishing boat was seen in difficulties near the wreck buoy south of the eastern en- trance to Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings five minutes...

Appledore, Devon. — At 9.20 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, a doctor told the coxswain that a woman and her daughter were in diffi- culties in the local motor boat Mahala of Crow Rocks and were burning...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...

Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had capsized a mile off Polkerris and that four people were in the water. There was a moderate northerly breeze...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized near Monkstone Point. At 3.50 the life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate...

FATAL FALL At 3.9 p.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the Great Yarmouth police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen into the river at the yacht station. The tide was almost at low water. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze with...