LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...

Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.48 on the evening of the 12th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a boy had fallen over a cliff at Bal- scadden Bay. At six o'clock, when the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at...

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...

Margate, Kent.—On the evening of the 18th July it was reported that a dinghy with a boy on board had been missing from Tankerton since the afternoon.

A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...

ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.

JULY 9TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. An object, which looked like a raft with someone on board, was reported, but only a buoy was found. - Rewards, £13 9s. 6d..

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Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....