LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.

Nothing had been found...

Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 4.55 a.m. on i4th August, 1966, attention wasdrawn to the fact that three fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. At 5.5 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a strong...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon on the 12th February, 1938, as the weather had got very bad, and the local motor fishing boats Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat were at sea. A strong...

Weymouth, Dorset.—On the^afternoon of the 3rd October the coastguard reported that a smallJyacht about fourmiles N.W. of Portland Bill was firing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 2.10 P.M. A...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.50 in the morning of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht three miles to the north-north- west was flying a two-flag signal and appeared to have stopped in an unusual position. The motor...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...

In this issue there are reports of four inshore lifeboat services to people cut off by the tide or trapped in cliffs or caves; it is a type of service for which ILBs are admirably suited but which may have to be carried out in hazardous... - View image in PDF