LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...

ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.

The tide had...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 2nd March only one fishing boat—• the Provider—took the risk of going to sea, as the weather was bad and a heavy sea was breaking a long way outside the harbour entrance. It was decided to send the motor...

On the morning of the 22nd of January the sea was heavy and still rising, and several of the local fishing cobles were at sea. By 11.59 A.M. a moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the pulling and sailing life-boat...

MR. HENRY PEGG, motor mechanic of the Dover (Kent) life-boat, and Mr. Wilfred Cook, travelling mechanic of the Institution, were awarded testimonials on parchment by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a man who had fallen into the sea at...

Snoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized outside the harbour.

The occupants of the boat, two men and...

Nov. 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the New Brighton Stage that a fishing boat appeared to be out of control and drifting. Later flares were seen off the Rip Rap Buoy. A moderate S.S.E. gale was...

Mr. John Prior, of Deal, who died on 14th December last at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty-five years the secretary of one of the most im- portant life-boat stations on our coasts —the famous station at North...