LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 28th of July, 1948, the Tara coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat was ashore on Long Pladdy, Ballyquinton Point. There was no immediate danger, as the sea was calm and the...

Rhyl, Flintshire - At 11.1 a.m. on 29th September, 1968, it was learnt that red flares had been sighted twomiles north east of Rhos point. At 11.37 the life-boat Har-Lil was launched in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...

Blackpool, Lancashire - At 1.45 p.m.

on I9th December, 1966, a D.U.K.W.

used to supply the drilling rig Bedford X was reported to be sinking near the drilling rig. There were four men...

REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...

SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...

TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...

Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.

the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...