LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 10.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, it was learned that two people were cutoff by the tide half a mile east of Splash point, Seaford. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 11.10 in a moderate westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was...

Salcombe, South Devon. At 10.14 p.m. on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flag was being waved from a motor boat that was drifting south in Starehole Bay. At 10.25 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...

APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.

At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...

HOWTH, co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 succeeded in saving the ketch Ocean Pearl, of Wexford, and her crew of three hands on the 13th February. Shortly after 10 A.M. a message was received telephone that a vessel was drifting...

Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...

FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.

At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...

THE Danish Government have awarded to Coxswain Richard Payne, of New- haven, Sussex, an inscribed Gold Watch, and to each member of the Newhaven Crew an inscribed Silver Cup, in recognition of their gallantry in rescuing the crew of the...

St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.

on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...