LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....

Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...

JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...

When a swimmer drew close to a pier at a Dorset beach, lifeguards moved quickly to warn him of the dangers – but they soon found he needed more than advice

The waters off Boscombe beach looked deceptively calm on 5 May....

SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...

SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 28th September several Scotch fi>hingboats were making for the harbour in moderate gale from the N.E. and a heavy sea. As it was apparent that danger would be incurred by them in entering the harbour the...

Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.52 on the night of the 2nd of March, 1954, the Rame Head coastguard rang up to say that the Fowey life-boat motor mechanic had intercepted a wireless message from the tanker Atonality, of London. This stated that the...

WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued that on the 30th of June, 1887, there were 218 stations, 166 being on the Atlantic, 44 on the Lakes, seven on the Pacific, and one at the Falls of the...