LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 4th of April, 1956, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that a dinghy, in which three people were coming ashore from the yacht Erisca in Totland Bay...

Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...

STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the Civic Guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares about four miles north-east of the harbour.

There was a south-by-west gale...

TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...

New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...

Tlie gardens of the former home of Lady Astor of Hever were opened to the public for the first time since 1961 in April to raise funds for Cemaes Bay branch. Cestyll Ornamental Gardens at Cemlyn, Anglesey, are now owned by the Central... - View image in PDF

Saturday 23 August dawned wet and all indications were that it would continue. The station put their wet weather programme into effect - the crew and shore crew cleared the lifeboat house, dressed both boats and decorated the... - View image in PDF