LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 15th February, at 6 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to the barque Orion, which had stranded on the south side of the North Scroby Sand.

A fresh S. by E. breeze was blowing at the time, the weather...

BURRY PORT.— Signals having been seen on the morning of the 18th December, during foggy weather, a strong S,W.

wind, and a heavy sea, the Life-boat David Barclay of Tottenham was launched at 3.30, and found that the lights...

Buckle, Banffshire.—At 12.55 in the afternoon of the 23rd of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore off Great Western Road, Buckpool, and the motor life- boat K.B.M. was launched at 1.20.

The...

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At about four o'clock in the morning of the 19th of December, 1949, the Bangor coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was in distress at Ballymacormack Point. At 4.25 the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched in...

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY MAY 16 TRIUMPH IN THE FACE OF A MOST TESTING WINTER 'GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME . . .' The annual general meeting of governors of the RNLI, held this year for the first time in the Purcell Room of the...

Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...

Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.

on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.

The weather was...