LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At about 1.30 A.M., on the 28th October, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Langhame Sands, about eight miles west of Ferryside. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.W., with heavy squalls, and the...

On the 29th December the Covent Garden Life-boat went out, in reply to signals of distress shown from the timber-laden barque Loreley, of Arendal, having on board a crew of twelve men, which had been on the Scroby Sands, and was in a...

FILEY.—The Hollon the Second Lifeboat was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd November to the assistance of the fishing fleet, which had been overtaken by a sudden gale from the E.S.E. The Life-boat men distributed life-belts to several of the...

Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.

Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...

Plymouth, Devon.—On the night of the 22nd September information was received from the King's Harbour- Master that the ketch Amazon, of Plymouth, was ashore on the rocks in Cawsand Bay. The weather was very foggy, with a smooth sea and...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...

Early on the morning of the 28th September a converted ship's life-boat, with four men on board, went ashore on the training bank. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. A pilot boat put off to her, but the men asked...

The Lifeboat is pleased to announce the award of an RNLI Bronze Medal for Gallantry to the Coxswain of Dunbar lifeboat, 38-year-old Gary Fairbairn.

Gary and his crew endured a 42-mile passage in severe gale force 9 winds...