LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is gratifying to be able to report that notwithstanding the great difficulties again experienced during the past year by all the workers for the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE - BOAT INSTITUTION, whether in connection with the Branches or the...

IT has long been the basis of the Institution's appeal for support that there is not a man or woman in these islands—dependent as they are on overseas trade for their prosperity— who does not directly or indirectly benefit by the...

The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 3.58p.m. on 1st September, 1968, it was learnt that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Thornwick bay and that the assistance of the life-boat had been requested by the police. Twelve minutes later the life-boat...

CATAMARAN AND NINE Girvan, Ayrshire. At 6.10 p.m. on 18th July, 1964, the local police informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Ardwell bay. There was a smooth sea with light airs from the...

HARTLEPOOL.—On the 23rd December, at about 7 A.M., the brig Berdinkha, of Hartlepool, ran ashore on the North Sands at half tide. When the tide rose, the sea and wind became stronger, and at about 2.30 P.M. three steam-tugs went to her...

With deep regret we record the following deaths.

NOVEMBER 1987: Miss F. E. H Shackleton, JP, vice president of Rochdale ladies' guild since 1959.

She was honorary secretary of the guild from 1947 to...

AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.

Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....