LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Birdwatchers on Filey Brigg saw a 2m dinghy capsize in poor weather on 9 September, throwing its two occupants into the water.

Filey’s D class Rotary District 1120 sped to the scene and found one man just about to...

At 5.18 p.m. on i6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat with three people on board was in need of assistance one and a half miles east north east of Foreness point. The IRB was launched at 5.22 in a fresh...

Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Cudden Point. The life-boat Millie Walton, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.15.

There...

HOLY ISLAND, NOBTHDMBERLAND.—The schooner Superb, of and from Timmernabben, Sweden, for Sunderland with a cargo of pit props, was seen beating up through the "Fairway," during a gale from the S.E., on the morning of the 31st of...

FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Seaham, Co. Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 7th April, 1962, the Seaham coastguard received a report from Easington that a fishing coble was in distress. A gentle west-by-north wind was blowing, and the sea...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...

FISHING-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.36 in the after- noon of the 10th of December, the motor life-boat The Cuttle went out to search for the local motor fishing coble Edward and Muriel, which was overdue. The sea was calm, with a...

FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...