LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Two Sisters Mary and Hannah Life-boat was launched at 12.15 P.M. on the 14th March during a very strong wind from E. by S., and proceeded to the assistance of the smack Olive Branch, of Lowestoft, which had damaged her stern by striking...

British Channel Island Ferries Captain Neil Vardy (right) presents Peter Hoiness, the RNLI's corporate fund raising manager, with a cheque for £845.50 watched by Chief Purser Eddie Wilkinson.

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LOWESTOFT.—At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of January, the second coxswain of the Life-boat observed that the trawler Snowdrop, of Ramsgate, had run aground on the north part of the Newcome Sand, during an E. by S. wind and a...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November, 1956, the skipper of the fishing boat Provider A reported that there were heavy seas on the harbour bar and that his own vessel had had great difficulty in reaching the...

POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia...

TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...

Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1960, a report was received that two boys were cut off by the rising tide at Broad Cove. Owing to rough seas it was not possible for a boat to come close inshore, and the...

NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....