LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Here are just a handful of incidents from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the...

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Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...

SPANISH TRAWLER AGROUND IN GALE Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 31st December, 1962, the harbour master at Bantry reported that a Spanish trawler had run ashore at Adrigole, and at 1.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.0 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1951, a cabin cruiser was reported signalling in difficulties off East Wittering. The coastguard was asked to keep watch; and at 8.15 the life-boat crew as- sembled. From the...

Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.40 on the night of the 3rd of October, 1951, the head keeper of Haulbowline Light- house telephoned that one of the keepers was very ill. No other suit- able boat was available, and at mid- night the life-boat...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress and in danger of •drifting ashore three-quarters of a mile west-south-west of Seaford and a half- mile off...

ADVENTURE AT SEA Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.18 p.m. on zyth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been called out from Mudeford under the inshore rescue scheme to the help of another boat firing...