LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 9.15 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light giving SOS signals had been seen coming from Skomer Island. At 9.45 the life-boat...

HELP FROM MOTOR BOAT, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht off the Conway estuary was being kept under observation...

Aith, Shetlands. At 8.40 on the evening of the 28th of January, 1958, a doctor at Walls told the honorary secretary that a patient was very seri- ously ill on the island of Foula and hospital treatment was necessary. The island's boat...

IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...

The Life-boat Thomas Black was launched at 6.38 P.M. on 6th February, in response to a message, stating that a vessel was quickly drifting ashore on the east side of Langness with her sails all gone.

On receipt of the...

Torbay, Devon.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of July, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that a boy had fallen over a cliff south of Berry Head coastguard look-out post. He had been badly hurt and, at 1.45 the life-boat...

RED FLARE At 10.35 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary's wife informed the honorary secretary that she had seen a red flare in the direction of the bay. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at ii o'clock in a...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.54 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the trawler Stella Arcturus, of Hull, had reported that she had gone ashore on the Binks and needed a tug. At 4.5 the...