LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Covent Garden Life-boat was also launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 17th December, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. She found the brig Clara, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to the Tyne with a...

Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 3.45 in the afternoon on the 2nd of April, 1950, fishermen reported that the fishing coble Jean and Valerie was making very heavy weather about four miles to the south. Accordingly at 4.10 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...

JULY 14TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. About 11.30 in the morning the Southbourne coastguard reported that a boat had capsized a mile from the shore oft Christchurch Ledge. The motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.35 in...

JULY 30TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.52 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that Horse Sand Fort had reported a motor boat flying a flag and drifting eastwards. The motor life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 5.10 in a...

Relief fleet D class A new D class lifeboat provided by the patrons of the Fox & Hounds public house in Surbiton was handed over to the RNLI in Poole on 4 February 1989.

Some of the patrons were present when Mr Vic...

FOLLOWING A MESSAGE received at 1553 on Saturday March 29, that a.sailing longboat from Wellesley Nautical School Community Home with six crew and an instructor on board had capsized one mile south of the fairway buoy, Blyth D class...

Exmouth, Devon.—The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 4.52 P.M. on the 15th November, as the coastguard had reported that a trawler, at anchor one mile off West Bay, was in need of help. She had asked for a tug earlier...

Miss Anne Norris, president of Sherborne branch since 1979 having served as its first chairman when the branch was formed in 1973. Until the formation of the branch she had previously been president of the Sherborne ladies lifeboat...