LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.

FATAL CLIFF FALL At 2.20 p.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a police report that a man had fallen over the cliff between The Needles and Freshwater Bay. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left at...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat...

ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.

The...

ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...

SEPTEMBER 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8. 10 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some eight miles north east from their station. A S.W. gale, veering to N.W., was blowing.

There was a moderate swell. The...

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BY the time this article reaches the readers of the Life-boat Journal, the " Life- boat Saturday " season for the year 1896 will be practically over, so that we are in a position to gauge pretty accurately the advancement which has...