LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of twenty-three of the S.S. Aberhill, of Methil.

COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded the silver...

On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...

On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...

Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...

In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 8.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a heavy swell was building up on the bar and that at least one of the smaller cobles was at sea.

The life-boat Mary Ann...

At 2 p.m. on 2ist October, 1966, two fishing vessels were being carried on to Barnard wharf. The motor fishing vessel Irene had fouled her propeller and the motor fishing vessel Goodwill had broken down while towing her. Only the Irene had...

THURSDAY, 10th October, 1889.

Colonel FitzRov CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...