LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.

Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...

Gour don, Kincar dineshir e - At 11.10 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the fishing fleet was having difficulties at the harbour entrance. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at 11.22...

In Number 43 of this Journal for January, 1862, we gave a description and illustrations of these useful articles, which much facilitate the launching and hauling up of heavy boats and their transport for short distances on the...

JANUARY 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

An aeroplane had come down in flames in the sea, but nothing could be found either by the life-boat or by aeroplanes. - Rewards, £7 12s.

JULY 4TH . - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by another boat. - Rewards, £5 19s.

(See Crail, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 99.).

PORTHCAWL, SOUTH WALES.—On the morning of the 12th April, about low water, the barque Marmora, of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, bound from Rochfort to Porthcawl, drifted on the Skerweather Sands. The Ohafyn Grove Life-boat was immediately launched...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 7.50 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of June, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steamer King George V, of Glas- gow, on passage from the Clyde to Oban with thirty-nine people on board, was aground at Scarba...

IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...