LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel on passage from Deganwy to Fleetwood had engine trouble and was drifting near the Morecambe Bay lightveseel. She...

Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.

and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...

Campbeltown's new Severn class lifeboat was named Ernest and Mary Shaw by donor, Mrs Mary Shaw, at a naming ceremony at The Old Quay in Campbeltown on 28 August.

The lifeboat was provided by a generous gift from the... - View image in PDF

CATAMARAN WITH DECKS AWASH SAVED New Brighton, Cheshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran, Spindrift, appeared to be in trouble off...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.

the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew...

Exmouth, Devon.—At 11.25 on the night of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported that a racing dinghy, with two men on board, had left Sidmoutb at 8.20 for Beer, but had not been seen since. A search was made by a Beer fishing boat...

The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.

At 5.30 in the evening the...

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