LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ONCE again the Institution will have on sale a pictorial calendar. This, for 1968, will consist of a very striking cover, bearing a dramatic colour picture taken at sea from the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat, and the months spread over...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...

37' Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane, back in Padstow after her service of December 7. (I.

to r.) Second Coxswain Trevor England, Dl (SW) Lt.-Cdr. R. S. Portclunouth, Coxswain Anthony Warnock and Honorary... - View image in PDF

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of May, 1952, the Civic Guard reported that a boy had fallen down a cliff about one and a half miles from the harbour to the east of Howth Head. The life-boat R.P.L.

was...

MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point, throwing her crew of two into the water. A light south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was...

JANUARY 31ST. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. The Greek steamer Avra, of Andros, had gone ashore at Yealm River, but she was able to refloat, and although badly damaged, managed to reach Plymouth - Rewards : Salcombe, £7 17s. ; Torbay,...

While a fresh S. breeze was blowing, accompanied by a choppy sea, on the morning of the 12th April, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. He at once communicated with the Coxswain of the- Life-boat Goard...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: January 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 8 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: November 21, December 15 and 24 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 13 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft bin Rather:...