LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.

In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...

Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 20th February the coastguard reported that the sea was very rough, and breaking on the harbour bar. As seven of the local fishing cobles were at sea, the motor life-boat Milburn was launched...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.38 on the night of the 22nd of November, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore on the south side of the harbour. The boat was burning red flares, and at 9.48 the life-boat Edzcard...

— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who...

HALF a league, half a league, Half a league seaward, In a wild storm of death Sail'd the five heroes.

Onward, the Quay Brigade! Straight for the wreck they made: In a wild storm of Death Sail'd the five...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1957, the Wallasey police reported that a rubber dinghy was being swept out to sea one mile off Harrison Drive. The life-boat coxswain and motor mechanic went to the drive...

At mid- night on the 20th January, during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith, was observed dragging her anchors, in a very dangerous position off this place. The Royal Berkshire life-boat was immediately manned...

Worthwhile find Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).

For some time we lived in the...