LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...

Three rescued RED FLARES sighted off Saltfleet Haven were reported to the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station by Humber Coastguard at 1940 on Sunday August 24, 1980, and, with the assistance of shore helpers, the station's...

YACHT AGROUND North Foreland radio station reported at 3.31 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, that a yacht was aground one and a half miles west of Mid Barrow lightvessel. No distress signals had been fired by the yacht but she had a heavy list. The...

DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...

At about 2.25 P.M. on 1st December the steam trawler St. Irene, of Hull, stranded on the Inner Binks, when returning, in dense fog, from Bear Island. She was seen from the shore and the No. 2 Motor Life-boat City of Bradford I. put...

Sheringham, Norfolk - At 9 p.m. on 29th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted one to two miles off Cley. The maroons were fired at 9.10. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd...

CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Lifeboat...

Towards the end of January, after the heaviest fall of snow for many years, the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire, was cut off by land from the rest of the world. Roads and railways were blocked; the telephone wires were down; but the sea...