LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a paper was read by Mr. 0. HARDING, P. E. Met. Soc., on "The Gale of October 15-16th, 1886, over the British Islands," in which he remarked that the storm was of very...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the morning of the 8th of April, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a member of the crew of the Bull lightvessel had died during the night and asked if the life- boat would...

MAY 2 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

While the auxiliary yacht Betty was on her way from Lynn to Gorleston her engine broke down. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, and as she was unable to beat round to Cromer under sail she...

APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...

The Women of Newbiggin.

Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.

ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they...

GOLDEN CHARTER V FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by the National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...

MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...

RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...