LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...

Swanage, Dorset-At 4.55 p.m. on 31st May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles south of Dancing Ledge. At 5.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched and at 5.27 she reached the...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1952, the coxswain received a wireless mes- sage from the local fishing boat Pro- vider A that her engine had broken down and that she would need help to enter the harbour. At...

Hastings, Sussex. At 7.12 on the evening of the 31 st of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Linda with a crew of two was having engine trouble two and a half miles south-east of Fairlight.<...

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a vessel was waving a red flag two miles east of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 in a calm sea....

YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There...

On the 11th January, news was received at this station that the services of the China life-boat were urgently needed in Torbay, as many vessels were in great danger of being wrecked during a strong gale of wind from the N.E. The China...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police that a man was drifting out to sea off Waterwynch Bay. At 6.18 the life-boat Henry Comber...