LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

WITH the exception of Liverpool no Station Branch contributes so much each year to the Institution's revenue as Eastbourne. With a population of over 60,000 inhabitants, and a large number Instituof summer visitors, it has opportunities...

JOHNSHAVEN.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th February, a small steamer, the Sarah, of Montrose, bound from Bridgeness for Fraserburgh with coal, was observed by the watch at the coastguard station to be dangerously near...

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Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.15 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that one boat had capsized and another was in difficulties off Peace- haven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.30 in a light south-easterly...

Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...

Pictured are Eric Winter (kilted) pouring a glass of malt for Ray Taylor.. - View image in PDF

Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...