LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 22nd of September, 1957, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat was anchored, with her engine broken down, off the coastguard look-out. Her crew of three were waving a flag on...

BOY WAS TRAPPED At 8.50 p.m. on roth September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was trapped 60 feet up the cliffs near Heddons Mouth. It was high water with a smooth sea and a gentle westerly breeze. At 9.12 the...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...

Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...

In November, 1944, the self-righting life-beat at Hastings was struck by a very heavy sea and capsized, throwing three of her crew overboard. She came right way up at once, and the other six men hauled the three on board again. As she...

CARDIGAN.—At daylight on the 16th April, intelligence was received at this station that. 4 men had been blown out to sea in an open boat just before dark on the previous day,'and it was hoped they had been able to get to Cardigan...

Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...

DURING the autumn of 1924 two films with a special Life-boat interest i were released to the Cinemas. One o f ' them, " Down to the Sea in Ships," is; the cruise of a whaler. Among its scenes are the wreck of one of the boats...