LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...

In the very early morning of the llth February the schooner Elise, of Hernosand, outward bound from Shields with a cargo of coal, collided with a steamer when off Staithes. The steamer stood by the schooner until daybreak. A...

THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.

Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...

Hoylake, Cheshire - At 12.43 p.m. on 23rd November, 1968, while the lifeboat Oldham IV was on exercise, a report was received from the coastguard that a dinghy had capsized off Sandhay slipway. There was afresh south westerly wind with a...

ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...

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Appeal success It was a proud moment when Southend Mayor Ken Cater unveiled a commemorative plaque at the town's inshore lifeboat house, next to the pier.

It acknowledged the hard work of Shoreline Club No. 3 in raising...

THE disaster at Seaham Harbour, in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.

The life-boat capsized at...