LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 1.20 p.m. on I4th April, 1967, a motor barge was reported aground on a sandbank west of Margate pier. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 1.45 in a strong north east breeze and a rough sea. It was three hours...

JUNE 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.20 in the morning the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asked for the services of the lifeboat to land an injured man from a destroyer coming into the roads, and at 7.40 A.M....

Nov. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon the S.S. Canada, of Copenhagen, bound for Hull, was badly holed by enemy action when twenty miles north-east of the Humber, and one of her holds filled with water....

OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..

DOCTOR TREATS INJURED MEN IN LIFE-BOAT Anstruther, Fife. At 3.1 on the afternoon of the 17th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Frederick T. Everard of London had two injured men on board who...

Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.

The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF

AMERICAN YACHT AGROUND AND HOLED Selsey, Sussex. At 12.45 a.m. on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the American yacht Bolero was aground on a wreck in Bracklesham Bay. At 1.15 the...

The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...