LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...

During a thick fog on the morning of the 23rd November the s.s. Lancresse, of Guernsey, bound from London to Newlyn with a cargo of stone, and the Norwegian steamer Tres, of Tonsberg, Blyth for Caen, with a cargo of coal, came into collision...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.— At 11.10 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1948, a message came from The Mumbles, through Burnham Radio, that a small boat, with two men on board, was drifting in distress toward the Mixen Shoal, off Mumbles...

Worthing, Sussex. At approximately 3.15 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Lancing. At 3.25 the IRB launched in a strong gusting to near gale force south-westerly wind and rough...

Pwllbeli, Caernarvonsbire.—3rd September.

A steamer was thought to beaground on St. Patrick's Causeway, but was found to be at anchor and only in need of a pilot.—Rewards, £10 6s..

Torbay, Devon.—3rd July, 1939. A small motor yacht had caught fire, but another yacht rescued the only person on board. A donation was received in gratitude for the launching of the lifeboat.

—Rewards, S.2 Ws..

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