LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jan. 4.—Five men put off in a boat at night and rescued the crew of seven men from the fishing - boat Mary Anderson, of Broughty Ferry, which had stranded off Arbroath, For- farshire, in a strong S.W. gale and a rough sea.

Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.

An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...

DURING the war over 200 honorary workers and friends of the Institution died. Among them were three members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, killed in an aeroplane accident on active service, H.R.H....

SERVICES OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

LLANELLY, SOUTH Witis—On the 7 January, 1867, intelligence was received here that a vessel was amongst the breakers on the Towyn Sands with signals of...

CREW OF THREE Salcombe, South Devon. At 5.2 p.m.

on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing yacht appeared to be in distress two miles west-north-west of Bolt Tail. She was tossing in a...

Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...

RHS awards: as well as letters of thanks from the RNLI, three Southend lifeboatmen were presented with awards from the Royal Humane Society after they rescued an 84-year-old man who fell from Southend Pier in November 1984. They saved his... - View image in PDF

Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.

St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...