LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk. At i.io a.m.

on 16th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a message from the North Haisbro lightvessel that red flares had been sighted in a position six...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Patricia Hague, of Fleetwood, was in distress two and a half miles north-west-by-west of Point of Ayre, and at 5.15...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.32 p.m.

on 25th February, 1966, the Caldy island steward informed the honorary secretary that the sea was too rough for the normal ferry service to take an injured boy to the mainland and...

Redcar, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 26th August, 1961, the coastguard told the mechanic that a small fishing boat off Marske was burning a distress signal. At 7.50 on the ebbing tide the life-boat City ofLeeds was launched....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.5 on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a man was very ill on board the collier Frances Fladgate. The vessel was mak- ing for...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.57 on the evening of the 9th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red rockets two miles south of Ventnor pier.

Eight minutes later the life...

ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...

AT 2.1 on the afternoon of 18th Novem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Blyth life-boat station, Captain H.

Rowe, was informed by the coastguard that a small coaster was in difficulties off Blyth Fairway buoy. Two...