LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...

Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m.

on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had struck the Flattens, and was aground, but the local pilot boat and a boat from a Holyhead boatyard...

MAY 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon a strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls, and news was sent to the life-boat station that the open motor fishing coble Sarah Elizabeth...

At 5 A.M. on the 16th March, twenty of the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their crab pots, but two hours later the wind shifted to the N.E. and increased to a gale, bring- ing with it a very heavy sea. The boats at once ran for shelter,...

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Harvest Hope, of Lerwick, had run ashore south-south- west of Copinsay; and at 2.35 the life-boat Thomas McCunn...

Inshore lifeboat crew members dive to sunken car The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to New Brighton lifeboat crew members Mike Jones and Tony Clare for the bravery and determination they showed when trying to rescue the...

FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—At about 3.45 P.M. on the 16th February it was reported that a vessel was ashore on Shell Wharf. The wind was then blowing a fresh gale from the W. and a very heavy cross sea was running. The Life-boat Child of Hale...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...