LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.

The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...

OCTOBER 22ND. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 12.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was shewing signals of distress and apparently had broken down. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy...

JUNE 24TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEY A message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard at 11.35 on the night of the 23rd of June that a vessel was ashore in Burwick Bay, South Ronaldshay. A south-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea....

On the night of the I 21st September, the barque Cruz V., of Oporto, with a general cargo, drove ashore near Dungeness Point. The Dungeness life- boat was speedily launched, and proceeded through 4 miles, of broken water to her aid, when...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.

It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...

RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...

Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....

YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...