LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 9.20 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on the north side of May Island. At 9.35 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched...

HELICOPTERS HELPED Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.46 p.m. on 2ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been reported ashore on the east side of Dodman Point. One body had been recovered but another was...

CLASS Fishing boats — all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.

Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...

OCTOBER 13TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.

At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles S.W. of Arbroath harbour.

A light southerly wind was blowing, and...

SEPTEMBER 18TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 1.38 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a glider was down in the sea one and a half miles south-east of Aldeburgh.

A north-easterly wind was blowing,...

DURING 1938 life-boat flag days were held by 772 of the 1,072 branches of the Institution, seven fewer than the record number of 1937. The amount collected on those days was £43,839 which was the largest total since 1930, and an...

THE Royal Humane Society has awarded an " in memoriam" testimonial to relatives of the late George Hanson, formerly head launcher of the Runswick life-boat, who lost his life when going to the help of a schoolmaster and a number of...

Poole: After HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Honorary Colonel of the Royal Marines, had visited Commando units at Hamworthy on November 4 he embarked in one of the Institution's latest 52ft Arun class lifeboats and was brought round... - View image in PDF