LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the night of the 15th November, 1937, the three-masted auxiliary schooner Invermore, of Dublin, left New Ross, Co. Wexford, for Liverpool, with a cargo of pit props. She carried a crew of five. During the following night, when she was off...

At 10.20 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing boat was seen being carried to seaward by the wind and tide. At 10.40 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour and a half after...

THE two French Life-boat societies have now been re-formed under one authority. This will be known as the 'Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer'.

The President of the new society will be Admiral Amman. His...

The schooner Brazilian of South Shields, whilst bound from that port to Stornoway with a cargo of coal, became windbound and lay in Longhope Bay for some days.

A change in the wind enabled her to proceed on her voyage, but...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 4.3 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized off Beadnell. At 4.9 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle, gusting to...

WELLS, NORFOLK.—A new life-boat establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Wells, on the coast of Norfolk. There was a considerable length of coast in the district without a life-boat, and as vessels frequently...

NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.

Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...

How does a volunteer lifeboat crew member find the time to juggle their work and personal life with their lifeboat duties - and why? Jon Jones spent some time on the Isle of Wight with Bembridge coxswain Martin Woodward to try to get some...