LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.

To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...

— At 8 P.M. on the 19th January the watchman re- ported that a vessel had stranded on the "Inner Binks," about one mile S.E.

of the Watch House. Robert Cross, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, at once went to the...

At about 3 P.M. on the 9th March the Coastguard reported that a fishing coble was ap- parently disabled and in difficulties about five miles to the east of Whitby.

The wind was blowing strongly from the W.N.W., and as...

Plymouth, Devon.—The Motor Life- boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 9.5 P.M. on the 27th October to the help of the ketch Millom Castle, of Plymouth. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy and confused sea, and the...

Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...

LIFE-BOAT RECOVERS DEAD BODY Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 3.20 p.m. on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent message from the Commandant of the Boys Brigade camp, who was...

by Paul Ferraby The Institution's fundraisers take advantage of the glorious June weather to display their wares against the backdrop of Swanage Bay and the town's new Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles... - View image in PDF

Saturday 23 August dawned wet and all indications were that it would continue. The station put their wet weather programme into effect - the crew and shore crew cleared the lifeboat house, dressed both boats and decorated the... - View image in PDF