LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 8.45 in the evening, on the 1st of June, 1950, dis- tress signals were seen about three miles south-east of Moelfre Island. At nine the life-boat G.W. was launched.

The sea was smooth, with a northerly...

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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.45 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the occupier of a house overlooking the Naze, Harwich and Harford water approaches that a man and a woman were marooned by the rising tide in the...

The yacht Orchid II pictured on 11th July, 1970, in trouble on the ebb tide on Caernarvon bar. Before the photograph was taken storm oil had been used by the Porthdinllaen life-boat (pictured in the foreground) to calm the sea. One man was... - View image in PDF

Swanage, Dorset - At 1.19 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, information was received that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile south of Hopelake and that the crew of two were signalling for assistance. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 1.26 in...

Launches 4 Lives rescued 7 ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 1.3 in the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1945, the naval officer in charge at Stranraer reported that an Anson aeroplane was in the sea in Luce Bay, five miles from the Mull...

At about 1 a.m. on the 9th April, the Coastguard reported that rockets were being fired from the Tongue Light- Vessel ; the crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were thereupon summoned and the boat was as soon as possible launched. The...

At 5.30 A.M. on the 4th April information was received that a schooner was ashore on the Nore Sand. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 9 were at once assembled and they proceeded to the pierhead, but by the time they got there the...