LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Soon after mid- night on the 24th-25th February the coastguard at Portland Bill telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about three- and a half miles south-west of the Bill. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, a heavy sea was running,...

Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.

But their mood changed when the wind...

Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...

MARCH 19TH. - CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.10 A.M. a message from the coastguard, Hartland Point, was received at Clovelly that a steamer was on fire six miles north of the point. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...

CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.45 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1957, a message was received from the Irish Lights Office that a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel had been taken ill. At 9.10 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was...

Hutnber, Yorkshire.—At 10.7 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth that a member of the crew of...

Southampton Boat Show The eleventh Southampton International Boat Show was opened by Sir Alec Rose on Monday September 17 in brilliant sunshine, and in the week that followed all exhibitors reported business beyond their expectations: orders...