LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th September the Needles Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a small yacht had capsized about one mile west of the Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P.

was launched...

PARAVANE TOWED Holy Island, Northumberland. On Tuesday, 9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified object had been seen one and a half miles north of Megstone and as the life-boat Gertrude was to...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 9.22 in the morning of the 6th of January,1952, the Scilly Islands medical officer telephoned that a patient at St. Mary's needed an immediate operation and, owing to fog, the surgeon and his staff could not fly...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1953, the coastguard told the life-boat cox- swain that a motor boat appeared to be in distress three quarters of a mile off Pakefield and was flying distress signals. At...

ALL FUEL LOST At 4.25 p.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel six miles south-east of Berwick Pier was flying an oilskin from her mizzen. The life-boat William and Mary Durham was...

Main photo {far left) Ref: 639489 Detailed photo (left) ftef 639472 Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, lies beside a harbour set in the estuary of the River Yar and is home to the busy Lymington- Isle of Wight ferry... - View image in PDF

Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 2.35 a.m.

on 15th October, 1966, red flares were seen off Vyn light. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 2.50 in a moderate north north easterly wind. It was two hours after high...

Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.

Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...