LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JUNE MEETING HAROLDSWICK, UNST, SHETLANDS. At 7.40 A.M. on the 15th April, 1940. the subpostmaster at Haroldswick reported to the coastguard that a small ship’s boat, with men on board, had been seen in Haroldswick Bay about a mile from the...

Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.17 in the morning of the 28th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore at Path Head, and at 10.40 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched. The' sea was calm...

AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...

MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.

The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...

Mrs. Robert Carpenter, who died on 24th April of this year, was one of the founders of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of Brighton and Hove in 1921, and was its first honorary secretary and treasurer. She held that post until 1930, when ill...

Ex-coxswain Murdo Sinclair died on igth July, 1965, at the age of 81. He had been coxswain of the Barra Island life-boat for over fifteen years and was awarded the silver medal of the Institution in 1943 for taking the life-boat forty miles...

Top photo: The RNLI also bestows awards to other recue organisations or members of the public for acts of bravery Claran Doyla of the Carda Underwater unit was awarded the RNLt's Bronze Medal for a harrowing rescue of three people from a... - View image in PDF