LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RESCUED BY HELICOPTER At 7.4 pon. on I2th July, 1964, a local pleasure boat proprietor told the honorary secretary that a hirer of one of his boats was missing and that the help of the lifeboat was needed to find him. The tide had been...

AnnouncingHectaFlOO A small echo sounder with a big punch! Hecta Model F100, while embodying many of the features of the well-proven 30 and 60 fathom instruments, has a transmitter of greatly increased power (in a separate case, as shown...

AUGUST 11TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.

At 12.58 in the morning, the police reported that a yacht which had put out at one o’clock on the previous afternoon, had not returned.

She had five on board. A...

YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...

MOTOR CRUISER AGROUND NEAR SEA WALL Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares in Seaford Bay, and at 1.50 the life-boat...

Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill,...

BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the most distinguished of its honorary workers. In spite of his many...

IT will be remembered that during the terrible gales in the winter of 1929 to 1930, great damage was done to the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, llth November, 1929, it was estimated that the fleet, when fishing off the East Anglian...