LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 7.40 P.M.

on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...

TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down...

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 12.44 early on the morning of the 4th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a small boat off Hobby Horse bank, near Newburgh on the Tay estuary. There was a strong north...

Thanks, but no thanks for Barry Dock! Barry Dock lifeboat crew were faced with an unusual situation on 12 September this year, when one of two survivors they had located refused the offer of a lift to safety on the lifeboat! Within 10...

FEBRUARY 2 8TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Cubenda, of London, with a crew of twelve, had struck a mine about two and a half miles east of Mumbles Head, and the motor...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 25th October, 1939, at 2.45 P.M. the coast- guard reported having received a message from a resident of Holland-on- Sea, that a small rowing boat with three men on board appeared to be in diffi- culties about...

Two of the drivers. Peter Marlow (I) and Paul Selway (r), who took part in a sponsored drive around the lifeboat stations of the South West, organised by Pill branch, Bristol, last September.

They are seen here outside the... - View image in PDF

THE following are the Centenary Souvenirs of which the Institution now has stocks ready for distribution. It hopes that all Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers will make every effort to sell them, not only as a means of...