LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th February, 1939, a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local motor...

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1955, an ex-coxswain reported that he had received a message from Lloyd's agent at Dover that the tanker Nayadis, of London, needed a doctor to attend her chief engineer...

Shortly after noon on the 18th February information, was received stating that a large ship was aground on the Shingle Sands. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled and the boat launched. On reaching the vessel...

At 9.25 P.M. on the 9th March a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the eastward of Jury's Gap. There was a strong S.W.

breeze at the time and the sea was rough. The Coxswain and crew of...

Workington, Cumberland - At 8.39 p.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received reports of a small boat flashing a white light about one and a half miles off Harrington. The signal appeared...

Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.15 a.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the m.v. Farringay was reported by the coastguard to have broken down twenty miles west of South Stack lighthouse. She did not require immediate assistance. At 8.50 the honorary...

MRS. EDITH MANBY, of Codsall, Staffordshire, completed, on New Year's Day 1936, a work which she began in April, 1935, of knitting woollen scarf-helmets for the life-boat crews round our coasts. Mrs. Manby had the help of 491 knitters...

Radios, helicopters, MRCCs - they have all altered the face of modern Search and Rescue.

But there are things for which the lifeboat is still best, as two friends of yachting writer and television broadcaster Malcolm McKeag...