LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...

The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.

Mr...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 5.38 p.m. on 1st October, 1969, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Fairmorn had been in danger of going aground on the Upgang rocks and might attempt to make harbour. There was a heavy confused swell running at...

SIXTEEN HOUR SERVICE TO DUTCH VESSEL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 2.53 a.m. on Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the Lochmaddy police reported to the Stornoway coastguard that there was a vessel ashore at Sponish Point, Lochmaddy. The...

Aith, Shetlands. At 3.10 p.m. on 5th October, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient on Foula was seriously ill and needed urgent hospital treatment. At 3.35, when the doctor boarded the life-boat, the John and...

Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...

Despite being so far away, the RNLI's Hong Kong branch works tirelessly to raise funds for the Institution.

The committee members were thrilled, therefore, when HRH The Duke of Kent, the Institution's president,...

The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...