LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At midnight on the 18th December large flares were seen in the direction of the Barber Sand. A yawl went out and sailed to the sand, but meanwhile, as the flares continued to burn and the Cockle lightship fired guns and rockets, the Lifeboat...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.11 on the evening of the 16th of January, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a local resident had heard an aircraft crash into the sea about four hundred yards from the old...

Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small pulling boat was in difficulties half-a-mile east of the south pier light. There was a moderate...

On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...

On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...

Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...

Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.

the fishing...

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