LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.

The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...

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Tuesday, 6 September started off as a normal day in the office at Poole, but by mid morning this had all changed after a call from the director of the RNLI.

I was to liaise with the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), he said...

THOBPEHESS, SUFFOLK.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 26th November, .the Life^boat Ipswich was launched in response to signals in the direction of Sizewell Bank, during a S.S.E. wind and a heavy sea.

On reaching the vessel, which...

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XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.

L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.

THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...

IN the early hours of 24th March, 1964, the Sennen Cove life-boat Susan Ashley rescued the crew of the French trawler Victoire Roger from under the cliffs at Land's End. The coxswain was awarded a bronze second service clasp for...