LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...

DECEMBER 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At about 10.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing coble Zephyr, with a crew of three, was flying distress signals about one and a half milesN.E. of Whitby Rock...

South Western Division Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near...

Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...

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...

Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Nov 28, Dec 14 and 28 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: Dec 2, Jan 12 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief D class: Nov 24 and Decl Alderney, Channel Islands 44ft Waveney ON 1045: Nov 2,13, Dec 11 and 12 Angle,...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 27th of January, 1950, it was reported that the local motor coble Resolution, with a crew of three, was overdue. The life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 2.40 in the afternoon in a calm sea with a light...

THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...