LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.

It is, as usual, a...

LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....

The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...

ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—Early on the morning of the 21st January several fishing-boats left the harbour, and whilst they were in the bay the wind suddenly increased to a very heavy gale from the N.N.E., with a tremendous sea on the ridge. At...

Commander H. B. ACWORTH, O.B.E., R.N., has been appointed Assistant Chief Inspector from the ist January, 1964. He was previously District In- spector (General).

Mr. R. D. PIKE has been appointed Assistant District...

Spurn Head and its spit are fascinating geological features - but they are a problem for the RNLI and the Humber Pilots who both operate there.

The lifeboat can be seen lying afloat off the T-shape pier on the left of the... - View image in PDF

IN connexion with the Rye Harbour Life-boat disaster on 10th November, when the whole of the Crew, seventeen in number, lost their lives, Memorial Certificates have been awarded—in addition to the pensions and allowances mentioned...