LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.40 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of messages re- ceived from the Trinity House pilot cutter and from the Sunk lightvessel that a large motor vessel...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio mess- age received from a local fishing boat stating that she had struck a...

MARCH 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. on 9th March, the duty naval officer at Ardrossan reported the S.S. Asteria, of Glasgow, ashore on Eagle Rock, off Ardrossan breakwater, and in need of help. She was a vessel of 694 tons gross, in...

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THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was...

Caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks were all shunned in favour of water during our new fundraising challenge, H2Only. It was a tough ask for many of our supporters: giving up all drinks except for water for 2 weeks. But they were determined...

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.22 -on the night of the 10th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the Humber Radio Station had inter- cepted a message from the French motor trawler Georges Langanay, of Fe'camp. She was on the...

TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.

On the afternoon...