LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

STAITHES.—On the llth January, about fifty of the Staithes cobles were out, when a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The Hannah Somerset Life-boat went off to their aid, and accompanied most of them to the...

JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...

GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.

by S., the sea was very heavy and the...

Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 4.20 p.m. on 28th June, 1967, news was received that a small sloop was in difficulties two miles north west of Penmon Point. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 4.45 in a south south westerly...

YACHT BREAKS FROM MOORINGS Beaumaris, Anglesey. At mid-day on Monday the 26th August, 1963, the yacht Galata broke away from her moorings off Beaumaris. A near gale was blowing from the south-west and there was a rough sea. The life-boat...

Eastern Division Three rescued THE WARDEN of Burnham Overy Yacht Club, Peter Beck, was told at 1100 on Thursday April 17, 1980, that someone was shouting for help in Overy Staithe Harbour. Mr Beck, who is also an auxiliary coastguard,...

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...

JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...