LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 THE TRUE MEASURE OF SUCCESS — 1,038 LIVES SAVED IN 1975 THOSE MARVELLOUSLY UNDER-STATED CITATIONS . . .' Thus Raymond Baxter put into words the feelings of the crowded Royal Festival Hall on the...

MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...

MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.

MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...

During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.

A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...

North-East England Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on I2th March, 1964, anxiety was felt for the fishing coble Providence which was at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and it...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 8th April the Coastguard reported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails,...

OCTOBER

Launches 107. Lives rescued 107.

OCT. 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX, At about 4 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S. of Walton Pier, was flying...