LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Caister, and Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of the Caister and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat stations that a U.S.A.F. Phantom aircraft had...

Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...

Peel, Isle of Man. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 26th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a French trawler was ashore on Peel Island. At 1.40 the life- boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was...

The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 3.9 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the yacht Enchantress, of St. Ives, which had three naval officers on board, had capsized half a mile south of The Lizard signal station,...

Selsey, Sussex. At 8.30 on the morn- ing of the 8th of October, 1960, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in shoal water inside Kirk Anow reef south of Selsey Bill and appeared to be out of...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.53 on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht was aground near the East Barrow beacon, although no distress signals had been seen. After a review of the...

DIFFICULT PASSAGE TO NORTHERN ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. At 6.50 on the evening of the 8th February, 1962, a doctor in Walls informed the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent call from a nurse on Foula Island for him to attend a...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.44 on the morning of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that the Brighton police had reported that a girl from a capsized sailing dinghy had been found coming ashore at...