LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A MEMORIAL service, conducted by the Rev. Norman Ncsbit Faid, assisted by Provost J. K. Moir, was held in St. John's Methodist Church, Arbroath, on the 20th of February, 1955, to com- memorate the six members of the crew of the Arbroath...

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At about 5.30 P.M. on the llth January, 1939, a message was received from the South Docks that a vessel close to the shore was burning red flares. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and snow showers. The...

IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...

The RNLI reached an important milestone in December when its first rescue hovercraft went on station at Morecambe on the north west coast. The Lifeboat takes an in-depth look at this exciting new addition to the fleet.'It's a lot...

LOWESTOFT.—At about 1.30 P.M. on the 3rd of March, the brigantine Caroline, of Faversham, bound from London for the Tyne, with a cargo of burnt ore, and carrying a crew of seven men, was seen to part from her cable in the roadstead, and in...

Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.

of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has achieved its latest fundraising target of £150,000.

The money will be used to fund a new Atlantic 85 lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, due on service in 2011. It was raised through passenger...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 17th of December, 1950, the coastguard said that a ship four miles east of Lowestoft was in need of help.

At 5.30 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, in a fresh west-north-...