LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 3rd of May, 1954, the auxiliary ketch Three Brothers, of Rye, broke from her moorings in the harbour. A whole gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 4th of April, 1960, con- ditions at the entrance to the harbour were deteriorating, and it was decided to launch the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield at 12.55 to escort the local...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 6.30 a.m. on I5th May, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was still at sea, and in view of the heavy swell which had built up on the bar with a strong flood after heavy rain, it...

Lytham-St Anne's, Sunday June 2, 1985: the Reverend John Carlisle, chaplain of Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat station blesses with holy water the 47ft Watson class lifeboat, The Robert. The re-dedication ceremony for this lifeboat, newly... - View image in PDF

JAN. 2ND. - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.45 A.M.

the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a...

A FRAMED picture of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in distress has been presented to Miss Ruby Snow, of Bideford, in gratitude for her work for the Life-boat Service. Although Miss Snow, who is seventeen years old, has been bedridden for...

Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell, coxswain of Blackpool lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1964. He joined the crew in 1923, and was second coxswain from 1947 to the end of 1954..

John Edmunds, coxswain of Hastings lifeboat from 1961 to 1971. He joined the crew in the 1940's and served as bowman from 1960 until his appointment as coxswain..