LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DART | 2 SEPTEMBER

Walkers on the South West Coast Path got front-row seats for an unusual type of rescue when the crew of Dart's inshore lifeboat went to help a calf. The animal had become wedged in a cave after...

Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1953, it was reported that the yacht Rongorge, which had anchored off Gallows Point with a crew of four, was dragging, and at 8.45 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...

SEPT. 4TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

A small boat out fishing had been kept under observation and, as the wind increased, the life-boat was launched at 9.20 P.M., but in the darkness failed to find the boat, which got in...

23rd Feb- ruary. A coble's engine failed and the two men on board were washed out of her. One was rescued from the .

shore, but the other was drowned before the life-boat could reach him.— Rewards, £7 6s....

Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.

Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...

The Life-boat crew were called at midnight on the 30th of March, signals of distress having been observed in the roads, supplemented by rockets fired from the Light-vessel. The Mark Lane Life-boat was launched, and soon reached the...

A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.

Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...

r BOAT WINDSCREENS AND I WINDOW SPECIALISTS j Manufacturers of brass and alloy windscreens to the Royal National Life-boat Institution and boatbuilders.

j All types of boat screens and windows.

Sliding,...