LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWO WERE HELPED At 8 p.m. on the same day the coxswain was told that a vessel was ashore between Dumpton and Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 8.15 taking the boarding boat with her.

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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 11 a.m. on 2yth March, 1967, a message was received that the fishing cruiser Minna had asked for immediate medical assistance for a member of her crew who had fallen overboard off Kepoch Head. He had been...

THE six summer months of this year have been the busiest which the Lifeboat Service has ever had in time of peace. Its boats have been out on service more often and have rescued more lives than ever before. The launches numbered 339, the...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The...

Dover, Kent. At 6.30 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1958, a message was received that the pilot boat Victor of Dover was drifting, with her steering gear broken, three miles west-south- west of Dover. At 6.45 the life-boat Southern...

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with...

Arranmore, Donegal - At 1 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler which had broken down was drifting towards the rocks east of Owey island. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a...

On 17th April, 1969, Abbotsford County Secondary School for Boys, Ashford, Middlesex, held a sponsored walk on behalf of the R.N.L.I. and raised a record sum—over £1,250. Of the 460 children who took part, 450 completed the 20- mile...