LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EIGHT SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM TRAWLER Caister, Norfolk. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 8th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had sighted red flares north-east of Caister. The motor...

A CAPSIZED YACHT Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.12 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, the Yealm coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized a quarter of a mile north-east of Mewstone at the mouth of Yealm River, and the motor life-boat...

About To Launch The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Firing Another Rocket. - View image in PDF

Barrow, Lancashire - At 2.45 a.m.

on 28th September, 1966, news was received that an air search had been in operation since the previous day for the yacht J.B.W., which was overdue at Glasson dock on passage from the Isle...

The crab boat Mistletoe, of Clovelly, went off to haul the pots in the early morning of the 4th May, and when returning was overtaken by a gale. Men went to see if the boat could be seen, but it was not until 2 P.M. that it was reported that...

AT the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 15th January and presided over by Mr. CHABLKB G. TUBNEB, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Bevenne, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWHAVEN NOVEMBER 23RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 8.40 in the evening a message came from the naval officerin- charge at Newhaven, through the coastguard, asking that the life-boat should stand by. The crew were...

Eleven-year-old Stuart Jones pictured with his father, Coxswain Mechanic Peter Jones of Porthdinllaen, with some of the fish from his 'mackerel race'.. - View image in PDF