LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At n p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Farringay was aground on Salters Bank and a tug was awaiting high water to tow her off. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the...

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JANUARY 19TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

At 10.10 A.M. information was given by an incoming trawler that the mast and sail of a vessel could be seen above water about a mile west of Wyre Lighthouse. A southerly wind was...

Stranded in rising water while trying to fetch her dog, Caroline could only call 999 and hope that help would make it in time

‘What could it be?’ That’s always the first thought Silloth lifeboat Crew Member Andrew Stanley...

Mr. Philip NichoIIs, ex-Coxswain of the Penzance Life-boat, died on January 30th at the age of 75. He was con- nected with the Penzance Life-boat for over 30 years, becoming a member of the Crew in 1871. He was appointed Second Coxswain in...

ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...

MR. JAMES JONES MARKS, who died on 24th March, at the age of 70, had been the honorary secretary of the Llandudno life-boat station for seventeen years.

He had been a member of the committee since 1907, so that he had taken...

JOHN HUBBARD, of Caister, who died on the 24th February, was the last sur- vivor of the crew of the Caister pulling and sailing life-boat which was driven back on the breakers on Caister beach, when on her way to a ship in distress, in a...