LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOSPITAL CASE At ii a.m. on i3th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man on board the motor vessel Olna Firth, of Newcastle, needed hospital treatment.

The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11...

Teamwork saves three surfers Thanks on Vellum awarded to Newquay helmsman A;ombined lifeboat and helicopter rescue in Force 8 winds saved the lives of three surfers in January - including a thirteen year old girl who was suffering from...

Mr. D. H. ROFF has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution in succession to Mr. Stirling Whorlow.

Mr. Roff, who was born in 1902, joined the Institution in 1919. He worked for a number of years in the Chief...

RAMSGATE.—At 6 A.M. on the 5th Jan., in consequence of signals of distress exhibited from the lightships, the Life-boat Bradford proceeded, in tow of the steamer Aid, to the assistance of the brig Speed, of Sunderland, which was ashore on...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.25 in the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, information was received through the coastguard at Easington that a rubber dinghy was drifting half a mile off Easington, and the life-boat City of Bradford //was...

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On the 28th April the Life-boat Beauchamp was again called out.

yawl had been employed to assist getting the brigantine Watch, of Hull, off the Middle Cross Sand, where she had stranded in very thick weather. The state of...

The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...