LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk. At 7.50 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man on a rubber mattress appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting out to sea. No other boat being available,...

Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'cJock on the evening of the llth of September, 1958, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard by the coastguard at Kildonan. After further enquiries the life-boat...

On the 7th June the Life-boat was again called out. and proceeded to the aid of the ship Micronesia, of Liverpool, which had her cargo of nitrate on fire.

Two steam-tugs and a Deal galley were in attendance on the vessel,...

SKIN DIVERS PASS LINE TO YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been blown on to the Pole Sands and that she was inside the...

At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she could reach her the...

Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...

Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At noon on the 21st of March. 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a child on the middle island needed medical atten- tion urgently and that no other boat was available. At one o'clock, when the...

On the 19th February, the smack Gloucester Packet, of Cardigan, was observed in the roadstead with signals of distress flying. The Sir Edward Perrott life-boat at once put off, and succeeded in bringing safely ashore the vessel's crew of...