LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Duke of Kent takes the helm of City of London II. Photo: Paul Russell. - View image in PDF

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RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.—On the morning of the 16th February, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was called out to the assistance of a small yacht—the Lady Lucy, of Liverpool — in distress ashore outside the bar. She left Liverpool the previous...

DECEMBER 7TH. - 13TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning a message was received at Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles south of Palling coastguard station. A strong...

Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...

SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing boat Bosebud, of Lowestoft, was being sailed from that place to Lerwick, on the 7th April, by two Shetland fishermen who had just purchased her, she was brought up by stress of weather and had to...

In recognition of his services as the designer of two of the Institution's standard types of life-boat Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., has been form- ally appointed as the Institution's Naval Architect. The previous title of...

Three honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, Mr. Walter Riggs, of Aldeburgh, Mr. G. Scantlebury, of Plymouth, and Mr. G. L. Thomson, of Stromness, Orknays, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours in...