LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Port Erin, Isle of Man. At six o'clock on the morning of the 9th of July, 1958, a member of the branch committee telephoned the honorary secretary to say he had been woken by the noise of a ship's siren sounding several short blasts...

FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...

North-East of England, South-East of England, and North-West of England.

TEN years ago the first conference of honorary workers was held in the North of England and although the practice of holding them regularly was not...

On the 4th March the Rescue was launched through a heavy surf to the assistance of a ship's boat belonging to the steamer Quail, of Cork, wrecked at the back of the Isle of Wight, and succeeded in bringing safely on shore the master,...

Tidal race DURING THE AFTERNOON Of Sunday August 28,1983, Swanage lifeboat crew were assembled after consultation between the station's deputy launching authority (DLA) and Swanage Coastguard. An 18ft yacht had been sighted trying to...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.25 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1951, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler Loch Fleet, of Aberdeen, through the Cullercoats radio station. She was making...

FEBRUARY 15TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 10.50 A.M. information was received from the Chapel St. Leonard’s coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two miles east of the look-out. A light S.W. wind was blowing,...

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION APPEAL., SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Patron—His Most gracious Majesty the King,—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS, K.G.

EDWARD BIRKBECK,...