LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.

As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...

ON Sunday, 9th November, 1969, the Eastney IRB was called out five times.

For their efforts that day Dr. Ian McLachlan, Mr. Peter Banister and Mr Brian Needle have all been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I, inscribed on...

Five saved as coaster capsizes in Force 9 gale Coxswain John Catchpole of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded a Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of five crew men from a coaster in Force 9 winds.

Assistant...

The Calendar.

THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...

PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...

REDCAR.—On the 2 2nd January the fishing-smack Temperance Star, of Redcar, was driven near the rocks during a strong gale from N.N.E., accompanied by a rough sea. On observing her perilous position, the Life-boat Burton-on- Trent was...

The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 7th May, signal guns havjng been fired by the "Wold Light-vessel. On reaching the Hasborough Sands the barque Sirius, of Drammen, timber laden, was found near Palling Knowl,...

Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...