LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A merry evening was had by all at the Varne Boat Club, Linlestone, in March. The Merrydown Cider Company took along samples of their original wines, wine vinegars and, of course, their famous Vintage Cider. The glazed eyes of the guests were... - View image in PDF

AUGUST 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

The naval authorities had asked. that the life-boat should go to the North Foreland where enemy parachutists had come down in the sea, but they could not be found.- Reward, £4 10s....

JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...

Another service was also performed by this life-boat on the 12th September, in going off to the assistance of a sloop which was observed with a signal of distress flying a short distance below the jetty, while a heavy gale from W.N.W. was...

Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...

Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...

THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 22-26 MORE NATIONS were represented at the thirteenth International Lifeboat Conference, which was held in the Netherlands from April 22 to 26, than ever before at one of these occasions. In the early days the...