LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties about two miles off shore at Milford-on-Sea. There was a light...

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On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position during thick...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th June, 1967, a report was received that the motor fishing vessel Universal Dipper was aground half a mile west of Sker Point. As the vessel was high and dry it was decided to delay the...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.32 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from a resident of Egremont that a sailing dinghy had been swamped by the wash from a liner, and that one man was in the water near the...

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JUNE 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.20 A.M. i t was reported by telephone that a small fishing boat was in distress to the south of Berwick pier, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on temporary duty at the station,...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At about 3 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a barge was in a very dangerous position south of Wellington pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough...