LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a half-decked fishing boat had anchored near the Bar buoy and that a man was waving a flag. There was a light...

Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...

On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...

The stand that says it all. Dot Emblin, Molly Walter and Mary Slocombe (I to r) of the newly formed North Walsham branch on duty behind their souvenir stall at the Worstead Festival in September. They made £444 during their time... - View image in PDF

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AT two o'clock in the morning of 14th November, 1901, the Beauchamp, the No. 2 life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, was launched in answer to flares of distress seen from a vessel on the Barber Sands.

A whole gale was blowing...

Honorary Life-Governor.

Mr. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been elected an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valu- able help which he has given to the life- boat service both as honorary secretary of...

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