LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent.—At 6.51 on the even- ing of the 15th of May, 1951, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a yacht had broken down one mile north-east of the South Goodwin lightvessel and was drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. A small boat could...

ESCORT FOR FOUR At 9.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four fishing cobles were at sea and that the weather was rapidly deteriorating. There was a near gale from the east-south-east with a...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At midnight on the 1st of August, 1957, the police telephoned to say that the motor launch Golden Galleon had not returned from a plea- sure cruise up the river. There were 180 passengers on board. The...

Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...

Kilmore, Wexford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of Monday the 17th of July, 1950, signal flares were observed on the Great Saltee Island. A bird watcher with his wife and two children aged eight and two were known to be on the island...

Severe Weather Hits Yacht Blyth's all-weather lifeboat, one of the victims of the hoax call on the previous page, is pictured towing a yacht to safety on 17 October last year after she had fallen foul of suddenly deteriorating weather....

The R.N.L.I. last year received a cheque for £18 10s. 9d. from the Governor of H.M. Prison for Women, Wilmslow. This amount was raised at a sale of work held in aid of the Institution, and the items sold were made by those in Barker...

Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.

—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...