LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHITBURN.—The Life-boat William and Charles was launched at 11.30 p.m.

on the 1st June and landed a man from the coble Guiding Star. Whilst he was out attending to his crab-pots, a heavy sea rose and he was in considerable...

Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.

The weather was fine and the sea was...

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat coxswain received a link telephone call from the Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which was undergoing gunnery trials in the Irish Sea, that a...

HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the birthday honours for 1962 included:— K.C.B. Rear Admiral E. G. IRVING, C.B.E., O.B.E., Hydrogra- pher of the Navy, and ex- officio member of the Com- mittee of...

MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.

Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.55 p.m. on I4th February, 1967, news was received that a member of the crew of the collier Charles Parsons had injured his ankle. The position of the vessel was about two miles east of the harbour...

SEPTEMBER 14TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

During the afternoon a man and a woman in a rowing boat from Benllech were rarried out to sea by the tide and a strong S.W. wind, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 3.30 P.M....

DUNGENESS | 4 APRIL
A man and woman were rescued from the upturned hull of a trimaran by the volunteer crew of RNLI Dungeness. Both casualties were balancing on the slippery surface when the Shannon...