LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 10.45 P-m- on 2nd July, 1967, a message was received that medical assistance was required for a sick man working on the building of a new lighthouse on Claf Island. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2, with...

Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne speaks to members of Southend-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 crew (from left to right, John Foster, David Goodbourn and Paul Henshaw), watched by station honorary secretary Colin Sedgewick (extreme right).... - View image in PDF

Montrose, Angus - At 8.25 a.m. on I3th January, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported on the rocks between Scurdyness and Usan. The life-boat The Good Hope was launched at 8.45 in a gentle west south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was four...

RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY..—The Norwegian barque Dronning Sophie was seen to be in distress in Carnarvon Bay, and fast drifting to leeward, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.W., and a very heavy sea was running, on the 7th October...

DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.

At 4.50 in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a tug in Cross Channel in Falmouth Harbour, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, which had...

Words of wisdom from Solomon Sheep: "It pays to be woolly-minded!' As a wool expert, Solomon knows that nothing warms you better. That's why he strongly recommends protecting yourself from the elements with Chilprufe woollen...

THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...

THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...