LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During the afternoon of the 16th February a sudden strong N.N.W. gale got up, with a heavy, broken sea and snow showers. The motor life-boat H.C.J.

was launched at 3.30 P.M., as two local motor fishing boats had gone to Hoy...

Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...

Margate, Kent. At 12.44 early on the morning of the 23rd December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen in the Gore channel. This was confirmed later, and the position was given as four miles...

From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1963 The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.

Windsurfer saved in broken seas and 8ft surf A service carried out by Bridlington's D class inflatable lifeboat in very heavy seas has earned the helmsman, Andrew Brompton, a framed letter of thanks from the chairman of the RNLI, and...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...

WATCH AT THE BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.30 a.m. on I9th April, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was getting extremely bad on the harbour bar. As part of the fishing fleet was still at sea the life-boat Mary...

ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.

The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...