LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...

THE ninetieth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, March 18th, 1914, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon. the Earl of Selborne, K.G., presided, and amongst those present...

In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...

SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1948, the local sailing club telephoned that the club secretary had gone out for a sail at 4 o'clock that afternoon in his yacht Glebe, but had not been seen since, and at...

Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 5.41 p.m.

on 2nd August, 1966, the Master Frank was seen flying a distress signal. She was due in harbour at 3 o'clock. At 6.14 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched into a moderate east...

• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).

The great rescues from...

Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...