LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 2.16 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that six people were cut off by the tide on a ledge at Thornwick'bay, one mile north west of the life-boat station. The life-boat...

Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.15 a.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the m.v. Farringay was reported by the coastguard to have broken down twenty miles west of South Stack lighthouse. She did not require immediate assistance. At 8.50 the honorary...

AMONG those associated with the life-boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.

MR. E. M. COOPER-KEY, M.P., a member of the Committee of Management.K.B.E. VICE-ADMIRAL W. K....

Propeller fouled A SMALL YACHT reported to HM Coastguard by VHP radio on the evening of Saturday October 7, 1978, that a 28ft sloop on passage from Penarth to Porlock Weir was broken down and drifting in Porlock Bay; she required immediate...

GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...

The Lizard, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficul- ties off Mullion Cove, and he tried without success to obtain the services of a local...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.15 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938, the coxswain saw from the boat-house thatseveral fishing boats were in trouble between Southend Pier and the Mid Shoebury Buoy. Some of them ran for shelter. The sea was very...

'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...