LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Thank you! This letter is long overdue to express my thanks and admiration to the 'lads and lassies' of the RNLI in Kyle of Lochalsh. On 16 September last year I brought Morgana my Nauttcat 38 alongside the pontoon in Kyle to take on...

BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...

SEPT. 2ND.- WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

At about 11.20 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that the trawler Navarre, of Grimsby, was ashore about five miles south of Duncansby Head. A fresh southerly wind was...

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 5.50 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard reported that two youths were cut off by the tide at Selwick bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Grace Darling, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate...

Dover, Kent.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 1st of August, 1949, a yacht was seen by the life-boat mechanic to have broken down outside the harbour, and at 8 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A moderate...

TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...

THE above engraving shows the interior, and persons occupying starboard side of boat. It is entirely covered in from stern to stern, having a raised hatchway, with light, and is propelled by a screw turned by hand, the locomotion and...

From a Submarine Depot-ship.

H.M.S. Cyclops, the submarine depotship, when she was paid off at Chatham in the spring, sent a gift of £30 to the Institution from her canteen funds.

From Two...