LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 10TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

A small boat had been reported in difficulties off Kessingland, but nothing could be found. Before the call a vessel had collided with the south pier at Lowestoft and had dislodged a...

AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.

At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1965, the IRB launched to go to the assistance of a person on board a pleasure cruiser which had grounded at Breydon Water the previous day. There was a fresh gusting to...

THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...

During a moderate northerly gale and heavy sea, on the 6th October, a vessel was observed about 7 A.M. to make signals denoting that she required help. She had been riding to anchor in the Princess Channel, but in a heavy squall lost both...

DOCTOR'S CALL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.20 a.m. on iyth December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a young boy needed to be taken to hospital at South Uist. There were light north-easterly airs with a...

TOWING BRACKETS Approved by car manufacturers and issued with fitting instructions. Also shock absorber, stabiliser and lightweight couplings.

Please save a little for the people who save a lot—give generously to the...

Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF