LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...

MY HUSBAND AND I took over as joint secretaries of the Barmouth R.N.L.I, branch and guild in 1967. Our hard-working predecessors had received wonderful support in their fund-raising efforts from both residents and visitors. With rapidly...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 20th February it was reported that practically the whole of the local fishing fleet was out, and that the sea was making very fast and was breaking across the harbour entrance. The...

BECAUSE of the large demand for the new life-boat ties, which were described in the September number of the Life- boat on page 279, it has been possibleto place a substantial order for future supplies with consequent reductions in price.... - View image in PDF

The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...

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