LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...

North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.

Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...

Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...

West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...

THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...

JANUARY 11TH - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 4.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that signals of distress could be seen three miles east of the harbour and at 5.15 the motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched. A moderate S.E. gale...

On the 20th March the same boat pro- ceeded out to the Noordster, a Norwegian barque, at about midnight: it blowing hard at the time, with squalls of snow and hail. A prior attempt to board the Noordster in White's Life-boat had failed,...

Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...