LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PwIIheli, Caernarvonshire.—On the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, a south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 4.10 the Abersoch coastguard asked the life-boat to search for a sailing boat which had been seen off...

— At mid- night on the 21st September a tele- phone message was received that a vessel appeared to be trying to attract attention by means of a flare. A strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. It was first tried,...

Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles...

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1953, the Rye harbourmaster reported through the Fairlight coastguard that a yacht one mile east of Rye harbour was making distress signals. At 6.30 the life-boat Charles...

LAUNCH TO DINGHIES AND WOMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties near C 16 buoy in the river Mersey. The...

Margate, Kent. At 4.56 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares have been seen north west of the West Girdler buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 5.22 in a...

Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near... - View image in PDF