LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.

Shortly after two in the afternoon the resident naval officer reported that owing to the north-north-west gale, which was blowing, small motor boats were unable to maintain communication...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...

At about 9.40 A.M. on llth February, during a S. by W. gale with a heavy sea, a barque was observed about three miles S.S.E. of Newlyn pierhead, running dead before the wind and right in on the land. As it was obvious that unless the master...

About 3 o'clock in. the afternoon on the 15th February, whilst the Life-boatmen were attending the funeral of the celebrated Life-boat veteran, James Haylett, the author of the famous phrase, " Caister men never turn back," the...

Seven German prisoners of war, who had been wotking on tine beach at Wells, Norfolk, removing coast defences, and had seen the life-boat launched on exercise, stole a lorry from a car park and drove to the life-boat house on the night of...

THURSO.—On the 8th of January, at 8 A.M., the ketch Crest, of Wick, lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads, showed a signal of distress during a very heavy N.

gale and a tremendous sea. The Charley Lloyd Life-boat proceeded to...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...

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