LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newbiggin, and Blyth, Northumberland.— About half past ten in the morning, on the 9th of November, 1949, it was decided to launch the Newbiggin life- boat as several local fishing cobles were out and" a strong south-south-easterly...

The Institution deeply regrets the loss of the following former coxswains of life-boats in recent months in addition to others whose deaths have already been recorded in the Life-boat: Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain...

On the 20th September, on the Southport life-boat landing at Lytham with the greater portion of the crew of the barque St. Lawrence, it was considered that the four persons who had remained on board her were in danger, so the Lytham...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...

A LADY sending a donation from Brighton writes : " Reading your appeal in my paper last week made me remember words of my late father which he often spoke, when my brothers and myself were children: ' Never, never pass a life-boat...

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...

CAPTAIN DONALD H. GIBSONE, D.S.O., R.I.N., who died on 7th April, in his 69th year, had been honorary secretary of the Berwick-on-Tweed station since the end of 1925, and in 1936 was awarded the Institution's inscribed binoculars in...

Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...