LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, a resident of Saundersfoot reported that a dinghy had capsized on the east side of Monkstone Point. At 5.20 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate...

Salcombe, Devon.—At 11.2 on the night of the 14th of June, 1957, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles west-north-west of Prawle Point. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out at 11.15 in a...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.57 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that flares had been seen be- tween the North and South Smethwick buoys three to five miles east-south-east of...

Plymouth, Devon. At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht near Mewstone had fired distress signals. At 7.44, when the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse was launched, a gentle...

Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.35 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen half a mile offPortobello sewer outfall. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 2.45 in a south westerly gale and...

OCTOBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

At about 10 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a vessel was showing distress flares north of Ross Island. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...

Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, who died last February, had been Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay District since 1921. Before that he had been the Honorary Treasurer for many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several...

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