LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 8.10 p.m.

on 12th October, 1966, the Scarborough lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in a dangerous position off the South bay. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...

Margate, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received through the North Foreland radio station that the General Post Office cable ship Ariel had received...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1956, the police rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that flares had been seen from a vessel about three miles off shore near Hilbre Island. The coxswain kept the vessel...

Beam trawler ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1977, at 2132, the 23-ton beam trawler Jenny reported on Channel 16 VHP that she was in difficulty and unable to manoeuvre in heavy weather some eight miles south south east of Nab...

Shortly after midnight on the 10th - llth January, information was received by telephone that two men were adriffc in a boat. As a moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were...

Stronsay, Orkney Islands. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1960, a local resident told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was in difficulties close in to Warness and needed assist- ance. The life-boat John Gellatly...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coxswain received a message that a fishing boat had been in collision with the trawler Strathdon off Peter- head. The motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf was...

Tracey Edwards, Yachtswoman of the Year, aboard Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat during the station's lifeboat week. Tracey has since become a vice president of the branch. (Photo Jeanne Hambleton). - View image in PDF