LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OVERTURNED SPEEDBOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 3.15 p.m.

on 20th June, 1965, the life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station after a publicity launch when one of the crew saw an overturned...

From the Men of the Fleet.

A gift of £1,900 has been received from the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. This is a part of the profit made by the Naval Canteen trading during the past year, and it has been given to...

CROMER.—On the 20th November, during a heavy breeze from the E., rockets were observed in the direction of Foulness Shoal, or Cromer Bock, about two miles to the eastward of Cromer. The Life-boat was launched during a heavy snowstorm, at...

At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.

When she was...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8 P.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light. A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The s.s. Innisfallen was in sight and as...

Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that two fishing cobles were at sea in very bad weather conditions. He had spoken to Flamborough coastguard, who had said that one of the...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.6 on the evening of the llth of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen south-east of Bressay Lighthouse in the direction of the Ord. A south-by-east gale was...