LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—A routine exercise had been arranged for two o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1955, but just before the life-boat put to sea the coastguard reported that the yacht White Lady, of Southwold, which had a...

A SECOND issue of "Life-boat Saturday, Illustrated," published by John Heywood, of Manchester, price 6d., is now ready.

This well-written and admirably got- up paper brims over with information relative to the...

Surely the oldest ladies' guild member must be Miss Violet Oswald. One of thebest loved members of Dunoon and District guild, she reached the age of 103 on October 12, 1974. At the annual general meeting at Dunoon last year she was...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 2nd March only one fishing boat—• the Provider—took the risk of going to sea, as the weather was bad and a heavy sea was breaking a long way outside the harbour entrance. It was decided to send the motor...

St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...

On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid,...

A special £1 draw was organised for this magnificent cake made in the shape of Exmouth lifeboat, just one of the attractions at a dance at Langslone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish, organised by 13 of the water sport clubs on the River Exe. The... - View image in PDF