LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, a local boatman reported that a motor boat was in difficulties off St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.20 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings with the second...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of January, 1960, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth to stand by the local fishing fleet, which was returning to harbour in bad weather. At 12.45 the life-boat...

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service upon whom honours were conferred in the Birthday Honours were :— O.B.E. MR. T. O. GRAY, deputy treasurer and vice-president of the Institution ; ALDERMAN H. L. GROVES, patron of the Lake...

The R.N.L.I. last year received a cheque for £18 10s. 9d. from the Governor of H.M. Prison for Women, Wilmslow. This amount was raised at a sale of work held in aid of the Institution, and the items sold were made by those in Barker...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - On 30th April, 1969, as the life-boat was about to launch on exercise, the coastguard reported that a fishingvessel appeared to be in difficulties three miles north west of Porthdinllaen point. The life-boat...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At eleven o'clock on the night of the 14th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the local fishing boat Harvest Queen had broken down and was in need of help. At 11.20...

THE Committee of Management has decided that a letter of appreciation should be sent to Coxswain John Bassett of Eastbourne for his part in the service by the Eastbourne life-boat when the trawler British Aviator and the motor vessel...

In this act of rescue during floods members of the Cromarty life-boat crew were helped by the police. - View image in PDF