LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.

A little later she was seen to move...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904, The Eight Hon. Lord BRASSEY, K.C.B., in the Chair, the following...

A Response of over £750.

ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the night of the 9th October, 1961, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a Polish fishing vessel was aground near the old pier lighthouse.

At eleven o'clock, the...

FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah...

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