LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.

Water was...

At 10.30 P.M.

on the llth January one of the local trawlers named the Ripple was seen to be in difficulties off Porthminster owing to the wind having suddenly veered to northward and carried away her mizen mast. Noticing...

LATE DRIFTING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.4 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had heard a girl shouting for help near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate south-south-westerly...

MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.18 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, a message was received from the St. Peter Port signal station that there were two seamen on board the Polish tanker Kasprowy suffering from food poisoning. At...

PORT PATRICK.—On the afternoon of the 19th June two fishing-boats proceeded to the North fishing ground. One of them was fully manned, but the other had been hired by two visitors, and her crew consisted of a man and a boy. Towards evening a...

APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary...

AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...