LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

[The following article appeared in the Lytham St. Annes Express on the 12th of March. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.] COULD you do what Lytham life-boat- men do when they are called out on an emergency? Could you...

H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...

AT 12.38 early on the morning of the j 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine of Glasgow, a vessel of 779 tons, bound from Llandulas for London with a cargo of limestone and carrying a crew of ten, wirelessed that her fore hatch had...

MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.

John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...

Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...

Whitby Scarborough East Division TWO LIFEBOATS STAND BY IN SEVERE CONDITIONS Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety...

BERWICK - on - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.

—On Sunday morning the 1st June, while a north-easterly gale was raging, accompanied by a heavy sea, the coastguard look-out man observed a barque, about six miles off, flying signals...