LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.

on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard reported that a small yacht was in distress four miles south-south-west of St. Cather- ine's. The life-boat S.G.E. put out at 2.33....

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 7.17 on the night of the 17th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a Ballycastle fishing boat, with a crew of four, could not enter Ballycastle Harbour because of a heavy swell and was making for a port...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Present Help, with a crew of nine, was ashore at the northern end of Lismore Island. At 4.21 the life-boat...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.

Lifeboats from Sweden and Norway visited Poole in May on their way to the 15th International Lifeboat Conference at La Coruna, Spain (a full report of which will appear in the Autumn journal). Pictured (left) are Norway's Skomvaer III,... - View image in PDF

returns.

When you are saving lives only the best will do. Rigid hull inflatables are now in service with the R.N.L.I, and H.M.

Coastguard. The superiority of this design in rescue work over a pure...

Rear Admiral W J Graham, who retired ax the RNLI's director at the end of 1987, visited the Channel Islands in November and is pictured on board Guernsey's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold, with Coxswain Peter Bissau (I) and... - View image in PDF