LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 8.3 p.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the radio ship Olga Patricia had reported that a fishing smack was firing red flares about one mile north of her. The life-boat...

SIX STUDENTS TAKEN OFF DINGHY Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the 28th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was in distress six miles north-north-east of Moelfre Island. There was a...

Redcar, Yorkshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 27th of December, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been informed at his home by a passer-by that a vessel was aground off...

Caister, Norfolk. At 4.10 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the Great Yarmouth coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Fosdyke Trader of Hull was aground on Caister shoal 400 yards west-north-west of Caister Elbow buoy....

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th December, 1961, the medical officer of health for Shet- land rang up the honorary secretary to say that a three-year-old girl on Fair Isle was believed to have...

Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C..R.N., who was Chief Inspector of Lite-boats when war was declared and was called back at once to the Navy, served for four and a half years until in the spring of 1944 he was released at the urgent request of the...

The request for medical assistance from a German cargo ship led to a call for Margate's Mersey class lifeboat, Leonard Kent, on New Year's Eve 1 998 when one of the ship's crew had to be evacuated after badly breaking his leg...

At 11 P.M. on the 14th November signals of distress were shown by the schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon.

The wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running.

The George...