LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Miss GILLIAN ELLIOTT, of Palsgrave County Modern School, Scarborough, Yorkshire, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition was open to boys and girls up...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—About 7.45 on the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber, 1955, the port radar station reported that a message had been received from a steamer that a fishing boat was in distress and asking for help between C.19 and C.21...

Contents 39 Summary of Accounts for 1979 40 Volume XLVII Lifeboat Services 41 JN UlTlDer 4 IL The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House, by Ian Haken 47 The Brede: prototype of a new lifeboat based on the Lochin 33 48 Chairman: Here and...

Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...

Jane Hay crossing the bar on return to Hastings harbour, with the three survivors from Simon Peter on board.. - View image in PDF

25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...

Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF

Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...