LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd February, 1970, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a man on Innisbofin island was seriously ill and required hospital treatment on the mainland.

The life-boat...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.14 p.m. on; 6th February, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that the small tanker Busby was in difficultiei with her steering gear broken down off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boatMichael and Lily Davis slipped...

StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...

New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with three boys aboard was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary...

Margate, Kent.—At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that a boat had capsized off Grenham Bay and another boat, with two men on board was trying to tow her. There was a...

Margate, Kent.—At 11.7 on the morn- ing of the 14th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to pass on a report that a cabin cruiser north of East Margate buoy was burning a flare and flashing a light. At 11.20 the life-boat North...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At six o'clock on the even- ing of the 10th of November, 1957, a message was received that the German trawler Hessen, of Bremen, had a sick man on board and that she had also asked for the services...

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed thata vessel was firing red flares a mile and a half west-south-west of Dungeness.

The crew assembled, but as...