LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.

Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 29th of March, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small vessel had been seen drifting towards Chale Bay. Her engines were not working and she was tiring red flares. The...

DURING 1934 the coastguard organiza- tion was required to take action (sometimes only of a precautionary nature) in the case of 797 vessels observed or reported to be in distress, in difficulties, or overdue, off the coasts of Great Britain...

Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) on exercise with an RNAS Culdrose Wessex Mk I helicopter off the Lizard. Two of the RN aircrew launched with the lifeboat; three lifeboatmen spent a short... - View image in PDF

C&vJte Ckapt MARINE A U X I LI AR IES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat Many other winches of similar design...

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The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...

Eastbourne.

AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...