LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.

Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...

JANUARY 21ST. - PORTASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 10.10 P.M. the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay. The night was dark, with an easterly gale and a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte...

Station to station
Lifeboat superfan Harry Mascall is celebrating an important milestone on his mission to visit every one of the RNLI’s 237 stations. The 8-year-old Storm Force member from Cheshire enjoyed When Connie Richards,...

At 9.46 p.m. on 1st February, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 16 foot motor boat with a 16-year-old boy on board was missing from Strand, Gillingham. The life-boat Canadian Pacific slipped her moorings at 10.3 in...

On the 10th Sept.

the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then...

THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January Gerry Prest Former Littlehampton branch chairman, in January Kenneth Atha Former Halifax...

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