LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...

SEPTEMBER 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At six in the morning the coastguard reported a drifter ashore on the rocks near St. Combs. A light southeast wind was blowing, but the sea was rough on the beach and there was some fog.

The important question of providing harbours of refuge on exposed parts of the coast, where natural harbours are not to be found, to which merchant vessels and fishing-boats could ran for safety in gales of wind, has once more cropped up,...

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Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.

SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 5.45 A.M. the  naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...

Swanage, Dorset - At 7.53 p.m. on 16th May, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a girl was injured on the cliff half a mile west of Anvil point. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 8.5. It was three hours after...

Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...