LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the evening of the 28th July telephone messages were received from the Coast- guard that a small yacht was at anchor in a dangerous position about 300 yards off shore, and that she would probably take tie ground and capsize when the tide...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th February it was reported that a man on the island of St. Martin's was seriously ill, and in urgent need of medical attention. Two doctors, both members of the local committee at St. Mary's...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.

1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 12.35 in the early morning, on the llthof January, 1951, the coastguard re- ported that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, about five miles north-east of Port Nevin, had a heavy list and needed help....

SMALL BOAT HELPLESS Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat flying a signal of distress about one and a half miles north-north-east of the coastguard station,...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.

the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.52 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a black flag about one mile to the eastward and at ten o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens left her...