LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.57 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the life-boat E.M.E.D. left Har- wich for her station, after towing in the motor fishing vessel Binny Stewart.

But shortly afterwards, at 12.22,...

Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.40 on the night of the 20th of October, 1958, a message was received from the local trawlers' agent that there was a sick man on board the steam trawler Boston Gannet of Fleetwood. The skipper had asked that...

January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...

JUNE 11TH. - FLEETWOOD: LANCASHIRE.

At 1.30 P.M. the lighthousekeeper reported that a small motor boat was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. Two other motor...

Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.

THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to stations have taken place since last summer—at Sunderland and Hartle- pool last October, and at Newhaven in April of...

In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...

WE wish to draw the attention of all readers of The Life-boat to a song called " The Life-boatman," the words and music of which have been written by Mr. Louis Drakeford. This song is being published, under the auspices of the...

Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...