LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...

Caister, Norfolk.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 21st of July. 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Fiducia, of Rotterdam, was ashore on the mainland at Waxham, but as the weather was calm she did not need help. The Fiducia...

BLOWN OUT TO SEA At 2.34 p.m. on the 24th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat with a crew of three was being blown out to sea. There was a near gale from the south-southwest with a rough sea. The tide was...

The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.

During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...

Swanage, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that two men in a row- ing boat two miles south of Peveril Point were shouting for help, and at 2.25 the life-boat R.L.P. was...

HELICOPTER PICKS THREE MEN OUT OF SEA Margate, Kent. At 2.14 on the afternoon of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-west of Kingsgate coastguard look-out...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The large Life- boat on this station, having become through frequent use, unfit for further service, has been replaced by a new boat, which, like the one it superseded, has been named the Covent Garden, in acknow- ledgement...

The mechanic of the Hastings life-boat, Mr. J. H. Martin, and Police Sergeant S. Ferguson of Hastings have both received framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for...