LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. will take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, at 3 p.m..

APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..

Right: the RNLI's Anthony Oliver helps Mrs Peggy Heriot of the Craft Club draw the winning tickets.. - View image in PDF

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was...

COASTER REFLOATED Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 2.35 a.m. on nth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a coaster appeared to be in a dangerous position to the south of the harbour. The coxswain investigated and found...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his...

AT the annual meeting of the committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, it was reported by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, that during...