LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lives saved.

Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.

Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...

Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...

THE LIFEBOAT Mersey class lifeboat ON-1166 Lincolnshire Poacher Cost £460,221 Funding Provided by a major donation to The Lincolnshire Lifeboat Appeal by the John and Lucille Van Geett Charitable Trust THE CREW Coxswain/Mechanic J...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—In the afternoon of the 23rd September, 1938. the coastguard reported that the St. Nicholas Light-vessel was firing and flying signals calling for the lifeboat's help. A light S.S...

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat mechanic reported that the motor trawler Silver Cloud, of Abersoch, was towing to Pwllheli the yacht Runag, of Glasgow, which had gone...

ON THE SANDS At 5.45 a.m. on i3th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that an auxiliary.* yacht Misty Blue was ashore on the South East Girdler sands and listing 45°. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. ji) was launched at 6...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 4 p.m. on 2oth June, 1965, the coxswain and another man were watching dinghies racing in the estuary when a sudden gust of wind capsized four dinghies at once. The sailing club's rescue boats were...

Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...