LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock lighthouse.

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PORT EYNON, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—On the 22nd March the schooner Glenravil Miner, of Barrow, was observed to miss stays and strand at Over ton Cliffs, a mile and a half west of Port Eynon Point; she was rolling very much and her crew were seen...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 30th of August, 1956, a message was received that the local fishing boat Dorothy was calling for help on her wireless. At 10.15 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Heptcorth was laun- ched in a slight...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.- At 10.25 P.M., on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the Felixstowe eoastguard, through the Walton-on- Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork...

some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d WEST HIGHLAND SHORES by Maldwin Drummond Published by Nautical Books at £19.95 ISBN 07136 5860 6 Maldwin Drummond is not only a Vice President on the RNLI's Committee of...

Aberdeen Asset Management is supporting the Cowes Lifeboat Station appeal, which is raising funds to establish a new site four minutes closer to Solent – the stretch of water between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight. Aberdeen...

YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael...