LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Intelligence having been received that a vessel was showing flares on the north side of the Haile Sand in hazy weather on the 23rd February, the Life-boat was launched at 2.45 A.M., and found smack Mayfield, of Grimsby, stranded the sand. At...

NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...

SALCOMBE.—A sudden gale sprung up from W.W.S., accompanied by an exceedingly heavy sea, on the 20tb Nay. The Coxswain of the Life-boat Lesty managed to return to port in his fishing-boat and reported that there were five boats at the back of...

Six motor fish- ing boats from Whitby put to sea on the morning of the 10th February. By the time that they were expected back a moderate N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and snow, showers, making the entrance into harbour very...

ON the evening of the 28th March, 1962, the motor vessel Ridunian, which was loaded with 150 tons of grit and gravel, sailed from Alderney for St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A fresh breeze was blowing from the south-south west, the weather was...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...

RNLI lifeguards spent a week on the Isles of Scilly in September, training a group of locals in surf lifesaving.

The group of 12 can now provide safety cover at the sea-based events that are at the heart of Scillonian life...

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