LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 9TH . - RAMSGATE, KENT. A Dutch motor vessel had been reported near the Goodwins, but she could not be. found.- Rewards, £5 8s.

THURSO.—On the 8th of January, at 8 A.M., the ketch Crest, of Wick, lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads, showed a signal of distress during a very heavy N.

gale and a tremendous sea. The Charley Lloyd Life-boat proceeded to...

Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that there were six local fishing cobles at sea, and as weather conditions were bad it had become very dangerous for boats...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat not recognised as a local boat was making for the harbour, and...

Whitstable, Kent. At 7.5 p.m. on I7th August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Philandees which had gone aground on the "street" at low water was now drifting out to sea, that her anchor was not...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1959, a message reached the life-boat- house that cries for help had been heard from a half-decked fishing boat ashore on the beach a quarter of a mile west of the...

Dover, Kent - At 10.17 P-m- 5tn August, 1966, the brigantine Centurion, returning from the tall ship race to Copenhagen, radioed that one of her crew needed medical attention. At 10.40 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched with a doctor...

Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.

The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...