LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.47 on the evening of the 29th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sixteen-month-old child had fallen over the cliff at Ballyrae. At 8.55 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No....

Barrow, Lancashire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th October, 1961, a life-boat shore helper informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Foulney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was...

FAULTY COMPASS Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 p.m. on 6th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat had been seen flashing a light 50 yards off Prah sands. Shouts for help were also heard.

At 11.45 the...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off...

Hastings, Sussex. Thirty minutes after midnight on 8th September, 1965, a red flare was sighted two miles south of the Fairlight coastguard lookout. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. The...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 7.42 p.m. on 27th November, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that the fishing boat Bluebell had been towing another fishing boat the Ebenezer (which had no lights) when the tow rope...

At 1.40 p.m. on 20th April, 1967, it was reported that a cabin cruiser with three men aboard had been taken in tow by Trobe, a vessel attending to the oil rig Sea Quest, and that assistance was required.

The life-boat City...

A new life-boat service has recently come into being. This has been formed in the Union of South Africa and is known as the National Sea Rescue Institute of South Africa. The organisation is a voluntary one and aims to establish some 38 life...