LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Padstow, Cornwall - At 3 p.m. on 21st August, 1968, it was learnt thatthe motor boat Spes with six people and a dog on board was overdue. She had last been sighted one and a half miles north east of Galland island.

The life...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At eight o'clock on the morning of the 12th of July, 1953, the harbour office rang up to say that a boat needed help off Skip- sea, and at 9.20 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.40on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy, with two children on board, had capsized half a mile off shore opposite King's Drive,...

SAFELY TO MARGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.47 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was flashing the international distress signal one mile north of Kingsgate. There was a gentle...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.17 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was showing distress signals three and a half miles north-east of Peterhead. At 8.30 the...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- east of St....

Dover, Kent. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1960, the police re- ported that a number of people had been cut off by the tide at Fan Bay.

The life-boat Southern Africa put out, towing her boarding boat, in a...

Wicklow, Co. Wexford. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, a man told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was firing red flares half a mile south of Newcastle Point.

The life-boat J. W. Archer was...