LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

REDCAR AND MIDDLESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

—The Redcar life-boat men having refused to work their boat, as they considered it was not large enough, a larger and more roomy life-boat has been supplied to them in its place. It is...

A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...

WHITBY.—On the 21st February, at about 5.30 P.M., while a gale was blowing from N.W.,with a rough sea, thick weather and snow, four fishing-cobles which had put into the bay on the previous evening were returning to the harbour. It was seen...

SWANSEA.—The Wolverkampton Lifeboat was launched at 9.35 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of two steamers, the Coniston Fell, of Liverpool, and the Ribble, of Whitehaven, which had been in collision about half a mile N.E. of...

THE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of this ; truly national and useful Society was held j at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon ,' Street, on the 4th of June. In the un- ; avoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE ', OF MARLBOROUGH,...

Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...

Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...

Arklow, and Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.— At 6.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, the Valentia Radio Station told the Arklow life-boat station that the French trawlers Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin had wirelessed that they had...