LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On returning to port at about 9 P.M. on the 4th January a drifter reported that another drifter, Sunbeam, belonging to Torquay, but fishing from Brixham, had asked her to stand by, as her engine had failed.

The Sunbeam was...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.J5 on the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1958, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Harbour and Docks Board told the honorary secretary that the crew of two of the yacht Nomad had spent the night on the Bar...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.23 A.M.

on the 18th February, 1938, a message was received from East Pier that a vessel was aground near Quern Buoy.

She was the motor vessel Thomas M., of London, bound with a...

SCARBOROUGH.—Two boatmen who were looking out from the Castle Yard, on the morning of the 21st July, observed avessel stranded about three miles N. The weather was thick, no wind was blowing and the sea was moderately rough. The Life-boat...

At 8 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, the yacht Chianti, with three people on board, was reported aground on the Newcombe sands. At 8.25 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick set out. It was low water, there was a light westerly breeze, and the sea...

Friends of Andrew Bridge, the 21-year-old skipper of the lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki, set sail in his memory in August to raise money for the RNLI.

The trio took part in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Despite...

Early on the morn- ing of the 24th November the coast- guard told the coxswain that they had under observation a small vessel which was drifting towards the shore in Walpole Bay, east of Margate. The coxswain went on to the cliffs and saw...

AT Quoyle, in Northern Ireland, aquatic sports and a carnival were held on 18th July in aid of the Downpatrick branch of the Institution. The Cloughey motor life-boat was present and one of the events was a balloon race. Prizes were given to...