LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Amble, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the coastguard warned the honorary secretary that two fishing cobles, which were overdue, might be in need of assistance.

It was decided at 10.15 to send the...

In our Summer issue we told you how we were tackling drowning through our Respect the Water campaign for men aged between 20 and 64.

IN 2013, 167 PEOPLE DIED AROUND THE COAST OF THE UK. 86% WERE...

Parachutist saved - with dry feetj Clacton lifeboatmen were involved in a most unusual service on 27 June, when they rescued a young woman parachutist while she was still airborne! The station's Atlantic 21 was called out when a...

THURSDAY, 1st June, 1876 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...

At about 9 P.M. on the 14th January the Coxswain, of the Life-boat Arthur B.

Dawes discovered that a vessel was ashore on the rocks of Boulmer South Steel. The night was very dark, with a thick atmosphere. The boat was...

South-western District.

A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in Hampshire, Berkshire, East Dorset and Wiltshire was held at Winchester on the 15th March. Representatives from nineteen Branches and Guilds were present, and Sir...

Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 4.52 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a message from the Thorshavn radio station that the Faroese motor vessel Ternan needed help twelve miles in an easterly direc- tion from Muckle...

THE death recently in Belfast of Mr.

Joseph Devlin, the Nationalist Member of Parliament, recalls a notable appeal which he made on one occasion at the annual meeting of the Belfast Branch of the Institution in the Belfast...