LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A request has been made by a visitor to Newquay, Cornwall, that there should be more than one Life-boat Day each year, and the request is heartily supported by one of the local newspapers, the Bodmin Guardian.

The visitor...

From time to time the R.N.L.I. is asked about the sale of ex-life-boats, the interest in old life-boats now being considerable. A waiting list of over 400 people was the situation in July of this year.

A private buyer, who...

OCTOBER 12TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 6.30 in the evening a telephone message was received from the local doctor asking the life-boat to take a seriously injured man to Oban. He was a woodman and had had his foot badly crushed while...

On the 21st of January the Lytham life-boat again rendered a most important service. On the morning of that day a vessel was observed pn the Salthonse Bank making signals of distress, it blowing a hard gale from the N.W., with a heavy...

On the morning of the 22nd October a whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 10,10 A.M. the harbour-master at Port- mahomack telephoned that three fishing boats had put out, but only two had returned, and that the third was in...

Ilfracombe, Devon.—-At 3 O'clock in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard reported flares, and at 3.30 the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched. The weather was fine with a calm sea. The life-boat found the...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 7th of May, 1949, in- formation was received that the local fishing boat Prosperity had taken in tow the motor yacht Red Rover, of Southwold, about one mile to the north- east, but was...

IN the report of Life-boat Day in Greater London, in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first time no buttons had been found in the collecting boxes. But buttons were, after all, given for the help of the Service—but...