LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...

Selsey, Sussex.—-The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 12.30 A.M., on the 26th November, 1938, as flares had been seen some miles S.S.E.

A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The...

Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 23rd of January, 1959, the medical officer of health for the county of Zetland asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a patient who was in urgent need of medical...

TOW FOR PLEASURE BOAT WITH SIX ABOARD Arbroath, Angus. At 8.47 on the evening of the 28th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the life-boat motor mechanic that the crew of a small boat were burning red flares three quarters of a mile west...

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.

Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...