LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...

The baby seal was stranded on the beach at Frinton and was adopted by Coxswain W. J. Oxley, of the Walton and Frinton life-boat. - View image in PDF

Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...

TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.25 early on the morning of the 2nd June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen between three and a half and four...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.53 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1954, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a naval cutter appeared to be in difficulties six miles south-east of St.

Anthony light-house. At 7.17 the life...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Island Commission of St. John Ambu- lance that the ambulance launch was under...

Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the mine sweeper H.M.S.

Warsash had asked for the life-boat to meet her at ten o'clock to take...