LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FLARES SEEN Margate, Kent. At 12.6 a.m. on 6th July, 1965, a small vessel was reported to be burning a distress flare close to the shore in Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched at 12.19 m a fresh...

TOW FOR CATAMARAN IN NEAR GALE Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 2.3 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficulties northnorth- east of Fishguard. The...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November, 1956, the skipper of the fishing boat Provider A reported that there were heavy seas on the harbour bar and that his own vessel had had great difficulty in reaching the...

Angle, Pembrokeshire. Early on the morning of the 9th of July, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had heard a violent explosion and seen clouds of black smoke coming from the direction of the Esso jetty at Milford Haven...

Troon, Ayrshire. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble near the Bell Rock off Prestwick. The life-boat James and...

OCTOBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.51 in the evening the coastguard reported an aeroplane down in Yarmouth Roads to the east of Nelson’s Column. The aeroplane was a bomber which, by mistake, had been shot down by our...

MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...

IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...