LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 9.35 a.m.

on 19th November, 1969, the coastguard reported that a motor boat was flashing a light one mile south of Cooper's beach. The life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched at 9.50....

Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.38 p.m. on 19th July, 1966, the honorary secretary of the ladies' life-boat guild reported that a red flare had been fired from a fishing boat half a mile to seaward of the boathouse.

The...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 8.13 p.m. on 26th June, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat, which had been fishing one mile north west of the North Goodwin lightvessel, appeared to have broken down, and the occupants were...

JUNE 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.13 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a small boat, with two people on board, appeared to be in distress 2 miles S.W. by S. of the Torquay coastguard look-out hut. A W.N.W. breeze...

Mr. H. C. Whitehead. of Appledore, who died on October 2()th, had been for thirty years one of the most devoted and successful station honorary secre- taries. He became honorary secretary of the Appledore station in 1901, and held that post...

St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—On the after- noon of the 29th of November, 1954, the motor fishing vessel White Heather, of Berwick, fouled her propeller off St.

Abbs. At 3.5 the life-boat W. Ross Macarthur of Glasgow was launched...