LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JAN. 2ND. - SCARBOROUGII, YORKSHIRE.

Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather. A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The Eagle came in and reported that the boats...

The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...

WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.

Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...

At 11.2 A.M.

on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...

A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Coxswain Walter B. West, Assistant Motor Mechanic Ronald F. Twydle, and Cyril J. Barnicoat, shore...

Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.

As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...

On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid,...

WHEN LIVES ARE AT STAKE Schermuly pyrotechnic life-saving equipment—outstanding for performance and reliability—is the choice of the R.N.L.I., H.M. Coastguard and Trinity House.

Line-Throwing Apparatus — Distress Signalling...