LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...

TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...

West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...

CABIN CRUISER AGROUND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a cabin cruiser was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties off Warden Point. There was a full gale from the south-west with a rough sea. The life-boat...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.30 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the tanker Springwater had an injured man on board and a doctor was urgently required. At 7.14 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 9.30 on the evening of the 7th of August 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had a yacht under observation. Seventeen minutes later they asked for the...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.47 on the evening of the 25th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south of Lowestoft look-out station.

The life-boat Michael Stephens left...

The Institution will have three Christmas cards for sale this year. One will have a reproduction of Tintoretto's painting Christ on the Sea of Galilee'., one will have a reproduction of a specially commissioned painting by David Cobb...