LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 5.31 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1957, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat needed help a mile and a half south of the harbour. The life-boat W. R. A., on temporary duty...

PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN.—A new Life-boat establishment has been formed here by the, Institution, some shipwrecks which had taken place in the locality, having shown the desirability of having a Life-boat on the spot, in the event of...

J. P. McDonough N. Pendlebury Galway Bay C. Hernon to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 5 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of February, 1949, information Was received that the motor trawler Radiant Morn, of Port Oriel, which had a crew of four, was making distress signals and burn- ing flares,...

Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...

Dr Hilary Jones of the Firth Medical Centre, Sullom Voe, Shetland, sets out on a long distance windsurf across Bus/a Voe. He completed the 14-mile trip from Brae to Aith and back in three hours and 20 minutes. The £500 he raised in... - View image in PDF

ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a small steamer was in distress. She was the Fermanagh, of Belfast, bound light for Llanelly. A gale was blowing from the south-west, with...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...