LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the morn- ing of the 4th of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted six to seven miles north-east of Kildonan Point. At 4.10, when the life-boat Charlotte Eliza-...

Selsey, Sussex. At 10.54 on the morn- ing of the 21st August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker ship Ben Johnson of London was standing by a yacht in distress off Selsey Bill. The life-boat Canadian...

Coaster escort Another service which made the headlines was carried out by the Hastings and Eastbourne lifeboats on 14 November 1993.

The coaster Tern was badly down by the head and in severe difficulties 10 miles off the...

This month (October), the Freemasons’ Grand Charity funds its second introductory B class course at the Lifeboat College in Poole, at a cost of £24,000. The Freemasons made a commitment last year to support probationary crew training by...

SEPTEMBER 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A steamer had been reported mined and on fire to the S.E., but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 1s..

Two boaters stranded on a small pinnacle of rocks in choppy seas were glad to see Trearddur Bay’s B class lifeboat Dorothy Selina on 23 October.

Their boat had suffered engine failure, smashed against the rocks and...

THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...

During a whole N.N.E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the afternoon of the 28th October, an object, which looked like a boat, was seen and kept under observation by the Coxswain. Later it was reported that the local motor fishing...