LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Salcombe, Devon. At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1958, the honorary secretary was asked by the shipping agent at Plymouth if the life- boat would launch to take spare machinery parts to the motor vessel Fedala of Rotterdam. The...

On the 12th December fourteen of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin proceeded in the early morning to the fishing grounds. Shortly after 9.30 A.M.

a strong breeze from the west sprang up and increased to a strong...

Happy new year! With fresh new (RNLI Shop) diaries in hand, we’re making plans for the year ahead. And 2019 is shaping up to be a busy one.

So what happens when an RNLI coxswain or a mechanic needs to plan some well-earned...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares to the east of the har- bour. A moderate west-south-westerly wind was blowing...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Just be- fore midnight on the 6th of July, 1957, the police telephoned that a motorist had reported seeing three red rockets off Kildalloig three miles south of Camp- beltown. The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...

OCTOBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A Blenheim aeroplane had been shot down in error by a British fighter, but a search, carried out during an air-raid. was without result.- Rewards : New Brighton, £19 6s. ; Hoylake,...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1955, a woman at Norton telephoned that a vessel was burning flares near Black Rock. The vessel was the M.F.V. No. 51, of the Water Trans- port Section of the Royal Army...

THE decision of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution to establish the headquarters of the " Life-boat Saturday " Fund in London, under the management principally of a representative committee of " Life-boat...