LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.20 A.M.

on the 13th April the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on May Island. She was the steamer Island, of Copenhagen, bound, with about sixty-seven...

Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.

She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...

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MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...

ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...

Thirteen Medals for Gallantry RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY On the 28th August, 1941, determined efforts were made to rescue the crew of a British aeroplane which had crashed in the sea.

MR. DERRICK H. BAYNHAM was awarded the silver...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 240, 255 and 274, the following launches on service were made during the months of June to August, 1966, inclusive: Aberdovey,...