LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat at Sunderland took place on 13th June. The boat is of the 46 feet Watson cabin type, described on page 192. She has cost £8,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. I....

The 37ft din Rother class lifeboat Shoreline is stationed at Blyth. The station honorary secretary is Dr Reginald Carr (I.) who is also Blyth's honorary medical adviser. He is a busy GP and when a call for the lifeboat comes while he is... - View image in PDF

THE Institution has received a gift of £10 5s. from the children of a Liverpool preparatory school. It came from the sale of tickets for the last two school plays, The Merchant of Venice and The Pied Piper of Hamelin..

Lady launcher passes away It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.

Doris lived...

wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...

Panic can paralyse. For nutritional therapist Julie Brooks (45), it struck during an activity she had completed many times before – walking from her holiday digs in Lydstep, Pembrokeshire, to Tenby. But this time, the tide came in quicker...

SAVED FROM SINKING Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.47 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was flashing a distress signal from a position close inshore one mile east of Beachy Head lighthouse. The tide had...

THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...