LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.

Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...

OVERDUE Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.47 a.m. on 26th August, 1965, the 28-foot fishing cruiser Gay Buccaneer was reported overdue on a passage from Southend to Wallasey Bay. Further inquiries were made and as there was no trace of the Gay...

At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.

She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.

There was...

Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...

Developments for 1931.

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition has now been held for ten years. Started in 1918, it was held in that year and the two following years. In 1921,1922 and 1923 no...

THE ANNUAL MEETINGS - 1994 AGM and APA News The Institution's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will, as usual, take place in London at the South Bank Centre, this year on Tuesday 10 May...

Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th October, at about 1 P.M., the Augusta Life-boat was launched, it having been reported that the brigantine Messenger, of Exeter, bound from Teignmotzth to Buncorn with a cargo of clay, had had all...