LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Montrose, Angus. At 9.15 on the morning of the llth October, 1961, the ex-coxswain of the life-boat, Mr. James Paton, heard his son, who is the present coxswain, calling by radio for the help of the life-boat. The son at the time was fishing...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 4 p.m. on nth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the assistant honorary secretary that a small yacht was getting into difficulties in the bay. The coastguard was contacted, and after setting a watch they said...

THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...

FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.

Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...

FISHING BOAT FOUNDERED At 8 a.m. on 25th October, 1965, the coxswain's wife informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Minnie was in difficulties in Clovelly harbour, having shipped seas while hauling in her nets.

The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.

Owing to the heavy...

Portrusb, Co. Antrim.—At 6.47 in the morning of the 26th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress on Rathlin Island, and the life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 7.5. A fresh west-south-west gale was blowing,...

AT the close of the fiscal year (30th June) 1899 the establishment of the Life-Saving Service of the United States embraced 265 stations. Of this number 193 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 56 on the coasts of the Great Lakes,...