LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ESCORTED VESSELS Whitby, Yorkshire. At 11 a.m. on 3rd January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that two motor fishing vessels, the Easter Morn and Galilee, were at sea in deteriorating weather conditions. The life-boat...

EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...

IN the last issue of The Life-boat two cases were recorded of ladies who had continued their work for the life-boat service when crippled by serious acci- dents. There is a third to be added to them. Miss Silvester, the honorary secretary of...

INFLATABLE STEPS IN TO TAKE OVER TOW Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves three A service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on...

At 7.15 A.M. on the 6th April a schooner was seen making for the harbour entrance the wind then being south with a heavy sea on the bar, and a quarter of an hour later when the vessel had just got inside the river, the wind suddenly...

Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...

(Above) Staithes lifeboat station, renamed Staithes and Runswick, was re-opened when an Atlantic 21 ILB named Lord Brotherton after a former Lord Mayor of Leeds was dedicated by the Reverend R. W.

Barnacle on June 17. The... - View image in PDF

Treasure Sale Silver coins and other treasure salvaged from the Dutch East Indiaman Hollandia, which sank in 1743, were sold by auction at Penzance on 8th September. Mr. Michael Newman, acting on behalf of Rex Cowan, the leader of the...