LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FIVE PEOPLE TREATED FOR EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.50 on the night of Sunday the 14th July, 1963, the Mersey Docks Harbour Board informed the coxswain that a French trawler had taken a disabled yacht in tow and asked if the Moelfre...

The Grosvenor Circle, a newly formed drama group of the headquarters staff of the R.N.L.I., staged their first production, Short Story, by Robert Morley, at the Abbey Community Centre Theatre, London, S.W.I, on 15th March, 1968.

ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...

HOLY ISLAND WITHOUT FOOD Holy Island, Northumberland.—By the 15th of March, 1947, with the roads blocked by sriow, no bread or other provisions had been received at Holy Island for nearly a week and it was decided that the life-boat should...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 512 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...

At about 12.30 P.M. on the 10th of October, a schooner was seen driving dangerously near the outer end of Teignmouth bar. A strong S.S.W.

gale had been blowing all night, but it had then moderated somewhat; the seas however...

CAISTER.— At 9 P.M. on the 13th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend was launched during a strong gale from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Emperor, of Banff, and the three-masted schooner...

The steam trawler Bosa, of Montrose, in attempt- ing to cross the bar at low water, on the morning of the 4th August, was struck by a heavy sea, and having taken a sheer, stranded on the Annat Bank. There was a very heavy cross sea at the...