SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat was published, the Institution has lost by death a number of its friends and workers, among them Sir Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Leeds Branch, Colonel Cornish, for many years HonorarySecretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Seven members of the Newquay, Cornwall ladies lifeboat guild, who between them have given 183 years of service to the Institution, were overall winners in the Newquay Carnival in July.
The ladies, two of whom have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SCARBOROUGH.—The flshing-coble Jane and Ann, of Scarborough, was making for the harbour in a strong gale on the 28th April and as it was clear that she would encounter considerable danger in coming in, the sea being very heavy, the Life-boat...
Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...
Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF
Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.
The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 4th of September two vessels were reported to be ashore at the mouth of the River Tay. A severe south-easterly "gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the Tay Bar. The English Mechanic...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.
The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...