LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a bather was being washed out to sea off Winthorpe Avenue, north of Skeg- ness pier. At five o'clock the life- boat The Cuttle...

The Institution has approved a proposal to build a new life-boat station at Selsey, Sussex, a quarter of a mile nearer the shore than the existing station. Competitive tenders have been invited. The work will involve the construction of a...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1957, the police passed on to the coxswain a message from the navigation barge moored off Lytham that one of the watchmen had fallen and broken several ribs....

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1955, the doctor on the Isle of Eigg telephoned the life-boat station that he had a patient suffering from appen- dicitis, who must be taken to hospital at once. As...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 26th of January, 1956, the weather became worse while the local fishing boat Gloamin N, which had a crew of four, was still at sea.

At 10.10 the life-boat Tillie Morrison,...

AT a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Institution in April it was decided to submit the name of Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick to the Italian Embassy in London for the San Remo "Figurehead of Courage" award for 1965. His...

Torbay's Arun class lifeboat Edward Bridges had to approach within inches of a cliff on 9 December 1988 to rescue a climber, who had fallen some 20ft into the sea at Berry Head.

The accident happened at a climb known as...

COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...