LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SHORELINE STAFF wish all members and everyone connected with the RNLI a happy and successful new year.

October 1974 was a landmark for us, when the 20,000th Shoreline member was enrolled. This member was 12-yearold Linda...

PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — The ketch Charles Francis of and for Plymouth from Newport, Mon., with a cargo of coal, in taking the harbour too early on the tide on the evening of the 14th January, ran ashore on the Doombar Sand. The wind was blowing...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.44 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, after the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 had been launched to the tanker San Cirilo, the coast- guard reported that a yacht was ashore on Red Sands. The...

DURING 1938 life-boat flag days were held by 772 of the 1,072 branches of the Institution, seven fewer than the record number of 1937. The amount collected on those days was £43,839 which was the largest total since 1930, and an...

NOVEMBER 13TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 10.15 in the morning it was learned from the local doctor that a woman suffering from severe gastric troublemust be taken at once to hospital. As no steamer would run for two days...

ON April 21st, in preparation for Life-boat Day meeting of in Greater London, Honorary Secretariesand other Organizers was held at the house of Lady Burnham, who not only entertained them to tea,but presided over the meeting, which numbered...

On the 14th March the barge Nellie, of Appledore, was returning home from Meadow Ridge, empty, when her mainsail was carried away by the strong southerly gale that was blowing. A very heavy sea was running, and it was...

At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...