LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....

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FOR THE FIRST TIME ever the RNLI had two different stands at Earls Court and for many of the thousands of visitors there was no doubt that the lifeboats were stars of the show. The spotlight fell on us time and again allowing us to give a...

On 20th September the Royal Firth, of Glasgow, a steamer of about 400 tons, struck the Mahon Rock near the Tuskar Lighthouse, while bound from Blyth to Eosslare laden with coals.

Shortly after 6 P.M. the vessel was seen...

From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...

and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...

THE facsimile reproduction which we give of a ship's collection sheet, as it was returned to the Port of Liverpool Branch, is only one example, but a very striking example, of the generosity of the mercantile marine to the Life-boat...

Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.

His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...