LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.

After returning from the trip she...

Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...

Caister, Norfolk.—At two in the afternoon, on the 8th of July, 1950, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched for exercise. On her way back to her station, about an hour later, she saw a yacht in difficulties off the north end of Caister...

Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.

There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...

Busy day for Rhyl ifeboats hyl lifeboat was the busiest lifeboat station in the UK on 18 June 2000 - responding to no less than ten incidents in ten hours! R Glorious sunshine helped to attract the crowds to Rhyl for the Royal British Legion...

Fifteen of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes and two belonging to Whitby had gone off in the morning of the 7th February to the fishing, when a heavy sea came on, rendering it impossible for them to reach their own ports. Owing to the...

THE naming ceremony of the motor life-boat for Gourdon, Kin- cardineshire, took place on 23rd May.

The life-boat is a Scottish gift, for it has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Margaret H. Dawson, of Bridge of...

(Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats) EVERYWHERE in north-east England, and far beyond, "Bella, the Life-boat Lady "is known. Mrs. Bella Mattison is the nationally known character who epitomises the wives of fishermen everywhere, and...