LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Figures already available show that 1965 was a year of outstanding achievement for the life-boat service. In 1964 an all-time record for launches by rescue craft of the RNLI was established. In that year life-boats were launched 929 times...

Jan. 10.—Voted 11. to two men, with thanks to one of them, for saving the crew of three men from a coastguard boat which was capsized off Shanagau Point, co. Antrim, in a squall on the 8th November.

Also 31. 10s. to seven...

Taking the plunge Thirty-six volunteers made their first parachute jump from 2,000 feet at the Al Skydiving Centre, Newnham in June and three weeks later Jim Marriott, landlord of the Ship Inn and organiser of the jump handed a cheque for...

MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The...

As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...

APRIL 27TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.

A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the body of thepilot had already been picked up. - Rewards, £12 7s. 6d..

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...