LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the morn- ing of the 20th of March,1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a 30-feet ex R.A.F. launch with two men on board was overdue on a passage from Portland to Torquay and that he had...

Persons rescued from shipwreck.

Fishing cobles of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety.

Sailing barge Melissa, of London. Ramsgate motor life-boat saved barge a n d...

As it was in the course of my duties as Engineer to tie Institution that I was returning from Ireland on board the Leinster on Thursday morning, October 10th, a short account of my experience will not be out of place in THE LIFE- BOAT...

OCTOBER 22ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but only a large patch of oil was found.

- Rewards, £31 17s. 6d..

New hand at the helm Andrew Freemantle, MBE has been appointed the new Director of the RNLI. He will succeed Lieutenant Commander Brian Miles, CBE, who retires at the end of the year after 34 years with the lifeboat...

Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...

IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...

THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...