LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...

WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..

Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...

Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...

Blown offshore ON THE EVENING OF Thursday July 5, 1984, Clyde Coastguard received a 999 call after a small speedboat had been seen, broken down about three quarters of a mile off Cowan Rock, near Girvan.

Her crew of two men...

FEBRUARY 7TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

Shortly after 9 in the evening information was received through the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine off Workington, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at...

LOWESTOFT.—The brig Messenger, of Yarmouth, bound from Sunderland for Lowestoft, with coal, showed signals of distress during a strong gale from the N.E. and a heavy sea on the 21st February.

The Life-boat Two Sisters Mary...

WITHERNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—Information was received, at 6 A.M. on the 14th August, that the smack Excel, of Grimsby, was on shore off Waxholme Mill. The Admiral Rom Life-boat was launched, but was driven back by the heavy surf. After...