LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched at 5.35, to stand by the local motor fishing boat May Lily, during a south-easterly gale with a very heavy...

Runs wick, Yorkshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1948, the Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope went to the fishing grounds. The wind was light, from the north-west, but the sea was rough and...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam traw- ler Longscar, which was making for Hartlepool, had boiler trouble. At 2.30 the life-boat...

Troon, Ayrshire - At 5.35 p.m. on 30th May, 1970, the life-boat's second coxswain sighted red flares two miles north west of Troon harbour. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill made for the casualty at 5.45 in a light north westerly...

Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.

That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe harbours.

When the call is for solid...

Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every...

Hoylake, Cheshire - At 12.43 p.m. on 23rd November, 1968, while the lifeboat Oldham IV was on exercise, a report was received from the coastguard that a dinghy had capsized off Sandhay slipway. There was afresh south westerly wind with a...

Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.35 p.m. on i7th November, 1966, a message was received that a man aboard the Grimsby trawler Tiberian required certain medicine prescribed for him by a doctor who was in the harbour office.

The...