LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 1.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1947, the Castletown coastguard reported that a boat entering Castletown Bay was burning a flare. She was close inshore and it was thought that she would reach the...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 8.52 on the morning of the 10th of April, 1955, the Lade coastguard reported that the motor yacht Episode, of Dundee, a houseboat of 131 tons, which had three people on board, had run aground on Camber Sands, but did not...

On the night of the 14th July the coastguard re- ported flares about three miles N.N.W.

of the look-out. The life-boat's officers were at sea, but a crew was collected and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.10 onthe morning of the 15th of May, 1954, the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen in...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the...

The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 8.30 a.m. on 4th December, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down about 16 miles south south east of the Lizard and had been calling for assistance since the early...

Date 1964 October i October 3 October 4 October 5 October 8 October 10 October 17 Station Whitstable Whitstable Southwold West Mersea Mudeford Worthing Largs Casualty Cabin cruiser BALTIC LILY Capsized dinghy Capsized dinghy Flare Fishing...