LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

LAST year Life-boat Day in Greater London felt on the first day of the General Strike. Over £2,700 was collected, a large sum in such exceptionally difficult circumstances, but not half what it Lad been toped to raise. This year a...

Baby alerts lifeboat - twice!Most people have their first taste of a lifeboat a little later in life than tiny Francesa Richey, who found herself aboard Oban's Brede Nottinghamshire when only a few hours old - having already put her on...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—On the 10th of September, 1951, the S.S.

Scillonian was bound from Penzancefor St. Mary's with eighty-three people.

The sea was smooth, but there was a very...

Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital. Maroons were...

Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.

The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. CHARLES E. TODD, on his retirement after ten years as honorary secretary of the Tynemouth...

MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...