LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...

AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...

Three cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 22nd April, and at 8 A.M. one of them returned, as the sea was rapidly grow- ing. The other two—the Robert and Mary and the Brotherly Love—reached the roads about 10 o'clock, and lay...

ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad because of heavy seas and the state of the tide. As the local fishing boat Margaret Jane was...

FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.

At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...

Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...

SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.

THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...

Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 2.30 p.m. on 23rd January, 1967, the coxswain of the seventy foot life-boat intercepted a radio message that the m.v.

Marilene had broken down and required assistance in a position...