LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coventry businessman Harold Smart's beard has been a double fund raiser for the Institution.

First of all he grew it, under the sponsorship of members of Coventry Rotary Club, during a three-week voyage from Lymington... - View image in PDF

CLOSE TO SANDS At 10.13 P-m- on 29tn December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the South Goodwin lightvessel had reported that a vessel needed help because she was driving towards the Goodwin sands. Later the coastguard...

After a severe storm which was experienced here on the 24th August had somewhat abated, about 200 of the fishing-boats put to sea, but at nightfall a gale of much violence came on from the N.N.W., and those of the crews who had not cast...

raised £630 to pay for the radio in the ILB. Clacton Round Table presented £100. St Osyth Training College gave the proceeds of its annual rag week, £300. Clacton Operatic Society presented £150. Tollesbury Sailing Club...

Arbroath, Angus.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 26th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that afishing boat was ashore off Whiting Ness; and at 5.45, the life-boat John and William Mudie was launched, in a light westerly breeze with...

Supporters donated generously for her construction, volunteers gave their time to trial her, and the RNLI’s project team worked day and night. Now a new class of all-weather lifeboat has become a reality after the first Shannon entered the...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...

Early in the morning of the 9th January some of the cobles belonging to Cullercoats put to sea, for the pur- pose of fishing, in a S.E. breeze and heavy sea. Shortly afterwards the weather became very much worse and the sea dangerously rough...