LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561 27.

GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BUILT RNLI LIFE-BOATS SINCE 1931 AND ARE NOW BUILDING 9 MORE AT EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT (Tel: 098-382-2561).

SEPTEMBER 20TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A yacht had dragged her anchor and gone aground, but no lives were in danger. - Rewards, £17 13s. 3d..

NOVEMBER 3RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Two men had been reported in difficulties near some rocks, but nothing was found and it was presumed that porpoises had been mistaken for men. - Rewards, £6 3s..

NOVEMBER 17TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. An object bearing a light had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 12s. 6d.

IT has been our custom from time to time to record the noble deeds of our Life- boat crews, who, acting on the promptings of an innate heroism, have, during winter storms, performed deeds of such desperate courage and patient endurance as to...

At daylight on the 27th De- cember the brigantine Lutha, of Leith, was observed off "Whitby with loss of masts and sails, and otherwise disabled, and with signals of distress in her rigging.

The Whitby No. 1 life-boat...

Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …

The...