LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .

Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 10 A.M. on the 24th January, during a strong S.E. gale with a very rough sea, the s.s. Rustoer, of Glasgow, was dragging her anchor and drifting off the pier. Only the captain and a boy were aboard her. The...

Selsey, Sussex.—At half past eight on the night of the 14th of December, 1949, the coastguard gave information that the Owers light-vessel had reported a yacht sinking nearby. At 8.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...

Z-BOATSto the rescue. .

Extensively used by the R.N.L.I.

for inshore rescue work, the inflatable RFD-GQ PB-16Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many inexcessofthat number. Being...

Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.

on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...

Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...

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FROM ist July to 3Oth September, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 141 times. On 24 occasions described in chronological order below they were able to rescue people in difficulties.

Southwold, Suffolk. At...