LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Moelfre, Anglesey.—During a whole S.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 11.30 P.M. on the 13th December to the help of the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, which had lost some of her sails and one of her...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About three in the morning on the 15th of March, 1950, the Orlock Head coastguard tele- phoned that red flares had been seen to the eastward. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her...

MB. JOHN WILLIAM BAYES, who has been honorary secretary of the Flam- borough life-boat station for thirty years, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours List, in recogni- tion of his distinguished...

LIFE-BOATMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.35 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1948, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that white flares had been seen off C.2 Red Buoy. The life-boat's crew went out in the...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.35 on the night of the 17th of October, 1948, the Portland Naval Base telephoned that a liberty boat returning to H.M.S.

Illustrious, lying in Portland harbour, had sunk near the ship and that many...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Favonian, of Belfast, which had a crew of four, was burning a flare a quarter of a mile north of Peel breakwater....