LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...

Dover, Kent.—16th February. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l 18s..

FEB. 16TH. - DOVER, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported to have dived into the sea, but it had come down to within a few feet of the sea and had then flown away.- Partly permanent paid crew : Rewards, £1 18s..

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the county police rang up to say that the yacht Cistus with a crew of four had struck an unlighted buoy in the Wyre Channel and had sunk. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...

Torbay, Devon.—At 2.26 on the morn- ing of the 26th of July, 1957, the Berry Head coastguard telephoned that a small boat was in difficulties three miles cast of Berry Head. At 2.58 the life-boat George Skee put out in a moderate sea. There...

OWING to the space taken by the accounts of the winter gales and the report of the Prince of Wales's visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow, it has been.

necessary to hold over a number of articles and reports which otherwise...

Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...

Flamborough lifeboat appeal: on January 15 Mrs Dorothy Hardy, honorary treasurer of Flamborough lifeboat appeal committee, presented to the Marquis of Normanby, a member of the Committee of Management, a 'cheque' for £126,665;... - View image in PDF