LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ROUGH SEA FACED IRB SAVE A drilling rig with men aboard off Hunterston was reported in trouble on 10th March. As assistance was required, the honorary secretary instructed the IRB at Largs, Ayrshire, to launch.

She launched...

THE Crewe Photographic Society held a two-days exhibition in April. Two thousand people came to see it. No charge was made, but life-boat collecting boxes were placed in the exhibition.

The sum of £18 10,?. 4d. was...

WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...

ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...

Contents ««--Q-* a, Penlee Formal Investigation 221 Volume XL VIII Lifeboat Service. 222 Number 4o4 Happy people: rescued two and saved boat 228 The naming of RNLB Ann Ritchie, Oban 229 Chairman: American Connection: the naming of...

SAVED FROM SINKING Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.47 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was flashing a distress signal from a position close inshore one mile east of Beachy Head lighthouse. The tide had...

TWO 14-year-old Scottish sea cadets who rescued a friend from the choppy waters of Campbeltown Loch are to receive special awards for their actions from the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

The boys, Ian Campbell of...

IT is THE GLORY of St Paul's that it can embrace all the grandeur of national occasion and all the simplicity and friendliness of a parish service. The RNLI could have had no happier setting for its 150th anniversary service of...