LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FELL ON ROCKS Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.6 p.m. on igth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the rocks at the Dhoon. The lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station,...

At 5.10 p.m. on 9th February, 1965, a doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on the Isle of Eday required hospital treatment and no other boat being available requested the use of the life-boat. At 5.30 the life-boat The John...

Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 12.10 P.M. on the 23rd July, as it had been reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was flying a distress signal.

A S.W. gale was blowing, with a...

Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...

For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...

MAY 24TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 4.40 P.M. the senior naval officer reported that two aeroplanes had crashed in flames, and the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 4.45 P.M. A light westerly...

Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...

Every little extra helps - covenants explained One of the messages we are constantly trying to put across is that all members should consider 'covenanting' their membership subscription.

Undoubtedly, the vast...