LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Contents Lifeboat Services 113 XLVII Lifeboat Services, June, July and August, 1980 118 474 Going alongside . . . and survivor recovery 119 January, 1881: three weeks of storms and blizzards just a hundred years ago, by Ray Kipling, public...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. On I4th February, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary was asked by the agents of the trawler Ira to lay an anchor and stand by while an attempt was made to refloat the vessel. At noon the life-boat...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

On the 14th September the Hais- borough coastguard passed the news that a vessel about two miles south of Haisborough, and heading south, was on fire. She was the steamer Porthcavol. of Cardiff, bound with a cargo of esparto grass from North...

Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...

Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...

THE ADVENT OF NORTH SEA OIL has wrought tremendous changes in almost every sphere among the various areas involved. None has been so significantly affected as that of the sea rescue services, this being amply reflected in the RNLI's...

Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...