LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOSPITAL CASE At ii a.m. on i3th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man on board the motor vessel Olna Firth, of Newcastle, needed hospital treatment.

The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11...

Runswick, Yorkshire - At 4.25 p.m.

on 2Qth July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht had capsized one mile off Port Mulgrave. The life-boat The Elliot Gill, which had just returned from a harbour fete at Staithes and was being...

OCT. 17TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

- At about 1 A.M. the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel was standing into danger near the Middle Binks. A light, variable wind was blowing. The sea was smooth. At 1.15 A.M. the...

Rescues from British Vessels in 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets.

DURING 1935 foreign life-boats went to the help of 22 British vessels. One of these services was by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 1 by Iceland, 3 by France, 3 by...

Motor Life-boat.

ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from...

Newhaven, Sussex - At 7.47 p.m. on 6th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties about seven miles south east of the station.

At 7.55 the life-boat Kathleen Marywas...

ON Life-boat Day in London a woman asked a collector in oilskins if he were not very tired. He said that he had started collecting at 7.30. It was then 11.30. She at once asked if she should bring him a cup of tea..

Chairman of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Station THERE has been a life-boat station at Berwick-on-Tweed for 118 years, and for the last thirty-four of those years the coxswain has been a Lough. A Lough is coxswain today, four of the...