LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE United World College of the Atlantic is 25 years old this year. What has this to do with the RNLI and what is Atlantic College anyway? Those who are familiar with the history of the college might well consider it the birth place of the...

BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—A small sailing boat, north of the Middle Mouse and drifting to sea, was seen by the coastguard, on the afternoon of the 26th August signalling for assistance. A message was at once sent to the Life-boat Station, and at 4...

Agenese, brig, of Sandefjord—as- sisted to save vessel.

Alice, ketch, of Milford 2 Alonso, 8.8., of Hull 7 Arbroath fishing boats—remained in attendance.

Arne,& schooner.of Soon—assisted to...

FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...

GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...

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IN our Annual Report published in May special attention was drawn to the fact that the Committee had appointed Organising Secretaries to promote " Life- boat Saturday" demonstrations, and to form new inland Branches. Very en-...

FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...