LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...

Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 23rd of June, 1952, a party of twenty-one people, belonging to Skibbereen, left Baltimore for Cape Clear Island eight miles from the mainland, but did not arrive back in the evening when expected. Their friends...

On the 7th June the Life-boat was again called out. and proceeded to the aid of the ship Micronesia, of Liverpool, which had her cargo of nitrate on fire.

Two steam-tugs and a Deal galley were in attendance on the vessel,...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1954, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had gone ashore about two and a half miles north- north-east of Needles, but that she was in no immediate...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore at Great Per- haver Beach. At 2.50 the life-boat C.D.E.C. put out in a calm sea, with a light southerly...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the morning of the 14th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a yacht with a crew of two was missing in the River Blackwater.

The message was passed by radio-...

PEMBREY, S. WALES.—On the 9th February, the Life-boat Stanton Meyrick of Pimlico proceeded to the aid of the brigantine Levrette, of St. Malo, which was lying at anchor near the Lynch. Sands with, a signal of distress flying. On arriving at...

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—Early on the morning of the 25th January, the barque Thorne, of and from Liverpool, bound for Adelaide with a general cargo, which had been riding out the gale in the bay for two or three days, showed signals of...