LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.

Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...

WINTERTON.—The Wold Light-vessel fired rockets and guns on the morning of the 7th February, in response to which the Life-boat Margaret put off at 4,25, went to the Middle Hasborough Sand, and searched the sand, but could not findany vessel....

AT the invitation of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, the Hon.

George Colville, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, attended the Society's Annual Meeting, which was held in Paris on Sunday...

Outboard failure A RED HANDFLARE from a cabin cruiser about two miles east of Cullercoats Harbour was sighted by Tyne Coastguard at 1232 on Sunday September 26, 1982.

Cullercoats lifeboat station was informed and at 1239...

SCARBOROUGH.—The Institution has sent a new 37 feet, twelve oared Life-boat •with transporting carriage to this well- known port and watering place, the cost having been provided by HERBERT A. FOSTER, Esq., of Queensbury Works, Bradford, and...

MR. L. W. B. TEELING, M.P. for Brighton, asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the coming closing down of the Royal Naval Air Station at Ford, and of the Royal Air Force Station, Tangmere, ceasing to be operational, he would discuss...

Launches 41 Lives rescued 27

MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...

Jan. 6.—Three men put off in a boat and saved a boy who had fallen overboard from a boat off Wexford, Ireland.—Reward, 15s.

Jan. 9.—Four men. put off in a coble and saved the crew of five men from the boat of the steamer...