LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ABOUT 8.45 on the morning of the 29th of September, 1958, a Royal Air Force 60-feet pinnace left Falmouth harbour for a trial run in rough seas.

She had a crew of five and Corporal N. L. Dyer was in...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1954, the weather worsened rapidly, and the crew of the motor fishing vessel Progress, when she returned to the harbour, said conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The...

Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 in the even- ing of the 24th of July, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned a message, received from a steamer through North Foreland Radio, that a sailing yacht wa's aground on Tongue Sands, four miles south-east of...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.5. on the morning of the 30th Nov- ember, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Hada II of Rotterdam was ashore on Sailers bank but in no immediate danger. Forty...

CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...

Many enquiries have been received from readers of THE LIFE-BOAT asking for the address of the publishers of Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr, 2is., which was reviewed in the March...

DINGHY IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—• At 4.16 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Broadstairs Sailing Club that owing to the wind and tide one of their dinghies could not reach...

Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...