LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...

Early in 1945 the German U-boats renewed their attacks on shipping close to the British coasts and one of the first ships to suffer was an American steamer which was torpedoed off South Wales. She was taken in tow, but broke away in a gale...

Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—27th September. A motorist had reported that he had seen an aeroplane crash into th« sea, but nothing could be found.

—Rewards, Dungeness, £16 11s. 6d. • Dover, Partly permanent paid...

from page 203 Opening time approaches and already a queue of visitors is building up. Forward publicity, arranged by Don Harris, deputy national organiser, had resulted in announcements of the sale by two radio stations; it all...

Delegates at the conference of voluntary life-boat organisations held at Malmoin Sweden, 28th-31st May, 1972, unanimously expressed their belief in the 'overwhelming advantages of the voluntary system' for the provision of an...

A private resident of Paignton telephoned to the Coastguard on the night of 27th April that he had seen a rocket about three miles east of Paignton Head. He thought that it had been fired from a boat in trouble eastward of a line from Berry...

To give his MG. TC, the bodvwork of which he had been re-building, a 'jolly good thrudging', Bob Shaw suggested a run from John O Groats to Land's End in aid of the lifeboats; Ian Horsefield said he would go along as second... - View image in PDF

During a W.S. W.

gale on the 8th September the coast- guard reported at about 3 A.M. that signals were being made by a vessel in distress. The No. 1 Life-boat E.A.O.B.

was promptly launched, and proceeded...