LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IN SWEDISH VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2 a.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain received a radio message from the Swedish motor vessel Garm that a member of her crew had acute appendicitis. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze...

Margate, Kent. At 12.31 a.m. on 3rd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, situated about one mile north of Whiteness and half mile east of "Longnose" buoy, was flashing a white light. The...

Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 1.10 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, distress signals were reported on Sunk Head tower. At 1.45 the maroons were fired, and at 2.3 the life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched in a fresh northerly breeze and a choppy...

Dunbar, East Lothian - At 12.9 p.m.

on 2nd May, 1967, news was received that a canoe had capsized outside the harbour entrance. The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12.11 in a strong north westerly wind and a...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly - At 7.20 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a ketch was in difficulties trying to roundthe Garrison from St. Mary's sound. The life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Salcombe, South Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, it was learnt that the lighthouse keeper at Start Point had reported a small yacht was burning flares at Peartree Point. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 8.59 in...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.19 p.m. on 5th December, 1965, the pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was firing flares threequarters of a mile south-east of Ramsgate and was drifting as her engine had broken down. The...

MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...