LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.38 on the morning of the 25th of May, 1960, the signalman at St. Peter Port harbour told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about four miles south of the harbour. At 4.3 the life-boat...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...

Thurso, Caithness-shire. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of January, 1955, the police asked if the life-boat would take provisions to Reay, as the roads were blocked by snow, and also convey a body in a coffin to Port-...

Girvan, Ayrshire.—About nine o'clock on the night of the 27th of February, 1956, the police reported that the fishing boat Incentive, of Dunure, had sent a radio message that she had lost her rudder and was lying at anchor about two and...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that two girls in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea half a mile south of Pendine Village. At 5.30 the life-boat Henry Comber Broirn...

Stromness, Orkneys. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 21st of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that after a small yacht had stranded under Ness Battery one of her crew had come ashore to get help, but on...

Selsey, Sussex. At 9.52 on the morn- ing of the 18th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a trawler had sprung some plates and was making water rapidly nine miles south-west of Owers light- vessel. At...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.54 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht Antaurus, which was without lights and had an unreliable engine, was overdue at Rams- gate. She had last...