LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—Information was received at 5.15 P.M. on the 10th April that a vessel was showing distress signals in Luce Bay. The Life-boat Frederick Allen was as quickly as possible transported on her carriage to the most...

Criticisms of the absence of the Sunderland life-boat when a lifeguard was drowned in tragic circumstances near the Cat and Dog steps at Roker last August were refuted at the inquest on the lifeguard, Mr. John Ramsay. He had gone out to...

Cromer, Norfolk. By noon, on 2yth November, 1965, the weather had deteriorated considerably and as five local fishing boats were still at sea it was decided to assemble the crew of the No. 2 life-boat. The life-boat William Henry and Mary...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...

Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no...

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a small sailing yacht appeared to be anchored a quarter of a mile to the east of the harbour entrance and was making signals...

THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...

STRANDED IN FOG Anstruther, Fife. At 9.15 a.m.

on 22nd May, 1964, a representative of a boatbuilders' firm at St. Monance asked if the life-boat would help the motor fishing vessel Integrity of St. Monance which had...