LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and...

JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...

Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...

Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.36 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the fishing vessel Fisher Lass of Sanday was overdue on passage from Kirkwall to Sanday. At 6.20 the life...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...

Dover, Kent.—At 9.4 on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties a quarter of a mile off Shakespeare Cliff. The coxswain put out in his own boat to investigate,...

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St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 15th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a skiff with one man aboard was adrift in the bay with no oars. The life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 10.10 in a...