LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...

1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.

The sky was overcast with a...

FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

At 9.30 at night the King’s harbour master telephoned that Portwrinkle coastguard had reported flashes. Further reports were received from other coastguards, but it was uncertain whether...

1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current year:— (vide last page for this list,) 2,—Moved by Admiral Sir GEORGE SAR- TORIUS, K.C.B.,...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.

1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...

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ANOTHER heavy loss has fallen on the Institution by the death of Mr. Edgar H.

Johnson, F.C.I.S., of Manchester, the District Organising Secretary for the North of England.

He was taken ill last spring,...

You could hardly find a more hostile environment for a building, surrounded by water and exposed to the full force of whatever the North Sea can throw at it. The old station and slipway at the pier end here at Cromer is beyond repair and its... - View image in PDF