LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.34 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a report was received that a boat had capsized between New Quay and Aberaeron. It was known that a small lobster boat was still at sea, although there was a strong northeasterly...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat not recognised as a local boat was making for the harbour, and...

SEINE-NET FISHING BOAT DRIVEN ASHORE North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.20 on the evening of the 18th June, 1963, the coxswain reported that the local seine-net fishing boat Faithful, which had a crew of six, had driven...

NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM On the quayside in the heart of the city's dockland is the largest display of Historic Lifeboats in Europe.

Come and see the Lizzie Porter from Holy Island, now fully restored, on the sole...

FEBRUARY 8TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A red light had been reported and the life-boat was launched and stood by in readiness, but she was not required to go out as a convoy was passing and its escort vessels were asked to...

THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and...

• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...