LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1949, the Gravir Post Office telephoned that a vessel between the Shiant Isles was sounding her whistle, and the life- boat William and Harriot was launched at...

Sub-zero escort THE 445-TON CARGO VESSEL Mare, of Honduras, on route from Rotterdam to Dundalk with a cargo of iron ore, ran into difficulties on the night of January 12, 1987 when her load shifted and she developed a 20 to 30 degree list,...

DOCTOR TAKEN TO OWNER OF YACHT Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yachtsman on board the yacht Prelude had reported by radio-telephone that the owner of the yacht had...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.40 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the piermaster of the East Pier rang up to say that a rowing boat with four men and a woman on board was in difficulties about one and a half miles off shore. Eight...

.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...

NUMBED WITH COLD Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 4.5 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Sea Breeze, of Aber- ayron, was making distress signals about a quarter of a mile...

Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...

CARDIGAN.—While a strong N.W.

gale was blowing with heavy seas on the evening of the 24th March, the signalman fired the alarm signal indicating a vessel in distress in Cardigan Bay. The Lifeboat Lizzie and Charles Leigh...