LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Frank Castle, second coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for 19 years, lost his life in a gale in April. The life-boat had gone out to a barge, and the coxswain put Castle, the bowman and the assistant motor mechanic on board to help...

On the 28th December the schooner Tom Cringle, of Thurso, N.B., went on shore on the Bondicar rocks, near Hauxley. The wind was blowing strong from the S., and a high sea running. Signals of distress having been seen from the shore, the...

Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...

Blyth, Northumberland. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary at New- biggin asked the honorary secretary at Blyth if the crew of the coble Morning Joy, which had entered Blyth, had any information...

Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.

He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...

COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...

Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...

Largs, Ayrshire. Letters of appreciation were sent by the Institution to the three members of the crew of the Largs inshore rescue boat who rescued four people and a dog from a motor launch on yth July, 1964. At 10.35 a-m- on that date the...