LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 on the evening of the 1st of December, 1959, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that two motor boats, which had left the harbour earlier in the day, had not returned as expected. Visibility...

ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...

NEWSPOINT One only has to look at the names of the RNLI's lifeboat's to realise that a large percentage of them, indeed perhaps the majority, have been funded by legacies and bear the name of the donor or a close...

Minehead, Somerset - At 2.30 a.m.

on loth March, 1967, the m.v. Farringay was reported aground off Minehead and bumping heavily. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 3 o'clock in a fresh north westerly wind and a...

At about 9 A.M. on the 6th March during a strong N.E. gale signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J.

Cummins, of Irvine, which was at anchor about one-and-a-half miles to the north- east of the harbour...

The annual horse show at Claygate, Surrey, which is known as the 'R.N.L.I. horse show' and is now one of the biggest shows in Surrey, will take place in June. Through Mr. John Bullock, a director of the Chrysler Motor Group, the...

WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...

A telephone message was received at 5.40 A.M. on the 30th November, stating that a vessel was making flares to the south of Collieston. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 19 were promptly assembled and the boat proceeded...