LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 18th of January, 1958, the Foreland coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south- east of Ventnor. The life-boat Eliza- beth...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Hawke- stone, of London, which had been towing two lighters, was missing and had last been seen...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Rock Channel and drifting out to...

Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly after 3 P.M. on the 18th November, 1938, a southerly wind was rapidly rising to a gale, with a rough sea. Three rowing fishing boats could be seen at sea by the coastguard, and at 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 18th December, 1938, the French schooner Bretonne, of Treguier, was sheltering in Whitesand Bay from a S.E. gale.

She carried a crew of five and was bound with a cargo of coal from Cardiff to...

Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At about 10.30 on the night of the 26th of January, 1948, a wireless message was received from the motor vessel Edenvale of Wexford, that her engine had broken down, but that she was in no immediate danger....

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...