LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...

Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched at 4 P.M. on the 2nd August to the help of the fishing boat Hyperion, with a crew of five, which was in difficulties owing to engine trouble. A moderate S.E. wind was...

Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.

on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...

Hartlepool, Yorkshire - At 7.27 p.m.

on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a yacht had capsized off the north pier. It was low water with a moderate easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The...

REAR-ADMIRAL T. P. H. BEAMISH, C.B., who died on the 2nd of May at the age of-76, had been a member of the Committee of Management for twenty-seven years. He was elected to the Committee in 1924, served on the General Purposes and Boat...

The London International Boat Show at Earls Court last January proved very successful for the RNLI and all the volunteers who helped to man the stand. The main exhibit, at first glance unusual for a boat show, was a tractor, or more...

Whitby ladies' lifeboat guild have reached their year end having raised £14,000. A major fund raiser was the summer draw, the first prize a painting donatedby Whitby artist Mr John Freeman, who is shown below with members of the... - View image in PDF