LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sinking yacht JERSEY RADIO received a MAYDAY relay call at 2215 on the night of Sunday August 5, 1984. The 25ft French sloop, La Boussole, had hit a rock north of Alderney and was sinking. Alderney lifeboat station was notified and at 2233...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At half past one in the afternoon on the 17th of December, 1949, the Walton-on- Naze coastguard telephoned that a sailing barge appeared to be in diffi- culties near the Cork Sand and that the Cork Lightvessel was...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that in his opinion the rapidly deterior- ating weather conditions would make it dangerous for the returning fishing fleet as...

Capsize TWO BOYS, aged 17 and 15, who had set out from Cove Sailing Club on a 15ft sailing surf board capsized off Baron's Point, lower Loch Long, at about 1240 on Sunday April 20 and were unable to right their boat because water was get...

PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...

On the 13th June two men on board the steam yacht Surprise, of Jersey, which was lying at anchor in the roads, were severely scalded by the bursting of a steam-pipe. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak put out at 11.15 A.M. A moderate S.W....

AT a number of places round the coast wreaths were cast on the sea on llth November, in memory of men who lost their lives at sea during the war.

At Southwold, Suffolk, following the service in the parish church, the Mayor...

A Miniflare being fired at night. The payload is, incidentally, falling while burning: a distress pyrotechnic does not ascend burning.. - View image in PDF