LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Dover, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard reported that the motor boat Ariel needed help near the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 7.51 in a very rough sea....

Life-boat Rescue from the Land.

THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.

For many years the Wexford Lifeboat Station was situated at the end...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was ashore at Cleats Point two hundred yards off shore.

The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...

Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...

Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.

—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

Mcelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1957, a dinghy three miles north-east of Moryn Point, Dulas, was seen drifting out to sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launch- ed. There was a rough...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 10.40 on the night of the 21st August, 1961, thehonorary secretary was informed that a small boat with three boys on board had failed to return to the harbour. At 11.15 on the ebbing tide the life-boat George and...