LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 15th October, during a strong westerly breeze, the lugger Castletown, of Belfast, in working out of Howth Harbour, struck on a rock near Ireland's Eve. The tide being at the time just on the turn, her position became very perilous...

On the evening of the llth October the coxswain was warned that the local fishing boat Maggie Smith, with a crew of four, had not returned to port when expected, and great anxiety was felt for her safety. The motor life-boat John and William...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.

By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...

Penlee, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th September, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Iron Horse of Newcastle, which was making for Mount's Bay. He...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...

On the evening of the 23rd April the coast watcher at Curracloe telephoned that a boat, about one mile south of Curracloe, was flying distress signals. A westerly gale was blowing, a very heavy sea was running, and it was raining. The motor...

Walmer, Kent.—At 5.10 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1951, the Deal Coastguard telephoned he had seen two red flares four miles south-by- east of the coastguard station. At 5.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was...

At 4.30 A.M. on the 17th December, rockets and large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand; the Cockle Lightship was also firing guns and rockets.

As the wind was blowing from the S.E., and it was ebb tide, it...