LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...

Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 p.m. on 9th April, 1964, the inshore rescue boat no.

14 was launched to help a sailing dinghy which had been seen to capsize half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse. There was a fresh southerly...

At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.

At 3.45 the patient and nurse...

Blyth, Northumberland. At 11.15 p.m. on 24th January, 1966, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, the Kirsten Frank, had gone aground on the Sow and Pigs rocks.

The life-boat Winston...

At 7.48 p.m. on nth April, 1967, it was reported that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at Aberbach, Dinas Cross. The lifeboat Howard Marryat was launched at 8 o'clock in a strong north north easterly wind on the ebb tide. On reaching the...

Arbroath, Angus - At 10.40 a.m.

on 13th August, 1967, the motor mechanic was informed that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties near Fairway buoy at the mouth of the Tay. A yacht in the vicinity had been unable to tow the...

Andrew Cruickshank and Kenneth Connor were appearing at Nottingham Theatre Royal the week the box office opened for 'Premises Premises', the show performed free for Nottingham and District branch by Cambridge Footlights on July 18.... - View image in PDF

On the night of 2ist. December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued eleven men from two naval motor fishing vessels which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands in a very heavy sea. The life-boat's rudder was damaged and Coxswain...