LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.35 a-mon 22nd March, 1966, a vessel was reported aground to the east of Lerwick harbour. There was a moderate north westerly breeze and a calm sea. The lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth set out 20 minutes later on...

AT the April meeting of the Committee of Management a letter was received from Earl Waldegrave, P.C., intimating that in view of the fact that he no longer resides in London, and that his health is not quite as good as might be wished, he...

WHEN OTHERS SEEK SHELTER The first Trent Class lifeboat 'RNLB The Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma' by Christopher Southcombe The original painting, which now hangs at Broadlands, was presented by the artist to the Countess...

OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a...

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SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK,...

'HE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have recently extensively circulated the following Queries on lie subject of the Treatment of Apparently Drowned Persons.

As it is thought the cause of science...

Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...

'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...