LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil...

MFV founders THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Lochinver lifeboat station received a call from Stornoway Coastguard at 1633 on Thursday June 16, asking him to stand by because Lochinver police had just reported that an unknown vessel had...

A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.

Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...

Emergency ST l__ if P hM i • NO other hand thrown rescue I mf aid can achieve the perform- *"" ' anceofB.E.LL B.E B.E.L.L.s are widely acclaimed for their throwability to enable direct contact to be made with the man...

Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.

—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...

BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...

Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 10th May signals of distress were seen by the coastguard, and the reserve life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.18 A.M. Visibility was poor, and a light E...