LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

For 190 years the RNLI has faced the challenge of being ready for anything – whether it’s one person who needs our help, 30, or even 85 – as you will read in this magazine’s remarkable rescue stories.

To be ready for...

JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing-lugger Mary, of Johnshaven, was seen making for the harbour on the evening of the 5th May. A heavy dangerous sea was running, there was very little wind and the water was low, so that it was...

A LOST PROPELLER Montrose, Angus.—At 6.8 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1947, the Scurdy Ness Lighthouse keeper reported that a motor yacht about a mile off- shore was making distress signals, and the No. 1 motor life-boat The Good...

TORQUAY.—About 9 P.M. on the 5th November, during a W.N.W. gale, it was reported that signals of distress were being shown by a vessel in the offing. The Mary Brundret Life-boat was launched, and on reaching the vessel, which was about...

FISHING BOATS ADRIFT Valentia, Co. Kerry.—During a north- west gale with a rough sea on the 23rd of April, 1947, several fishing boats broke adrift. One drifted towards the mainland and was in danger of being wrecked. The motor life-boat...

ARTHUR FREDERICK EVANS died on the 24th May, 1961, at the age of 89.

He was appointed Surveyor of Machinery of the Institution in 1914, a position which he held until his retire- ment in 1926. He was largely responsible for...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Success II was mak- ing for Whitby in a heavy sea with a strong north-north-west wind. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...

Hastings, Sussex. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 13th of October, 1958, the honorary secretary asked the coastguard for information about three fishing vessels which had gone to the fishing grounds the previous evening, for the...