LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

MAN RESCUED FROM YACHT AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Sunk pilot cutter had reported that a small craft a quarter of a mile south of...

rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...

Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.

Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...

WALMER AND DEAL, KENT A BRANCH of the National Life-boat Institution, under the above title, has been recently founded at Walmer, and a 30-feet life-boat, on Mr. Peake's plan, perfectly equipped both for sailing and rowing, and combining...

• Grahame Farr, one of the honorary archivists of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, is a true historian and whenever he publishes a paper containing the results of his research he makes available a new and valuable chapter to all those...

Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...