LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.3 on the night of the 4th of September, 1958, the coastguard received a message from the police at Brighton that a two- masted boat was sending distress signals.

Her position was given as a...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat was anchored off Holland-on-Sea near the buoy marking the sewer. Her occupant was waving a...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that the yacht Wanderer, which was towing a cabin cruiser, appeared to be in difficulties off St. Anthony...

LIFE-BOAT, HELICOPTER AND MOTOR BOATS GO TO YACHT Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he could see a sailing dinghy aground in Portmadoc estuary, and...

HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in...

RED FOR DANGER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.32 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Boy Leslie was burning red flares on the outer edge of the Newcombe sand. The cabin cruiser's engine had...

At 11.13 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, a yacht was seen firing distress signals in the vicinity of the Tongue sands. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20 in a strong south south westerly wind and...

MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...