LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Silver Queen appeared to have broken down and was flashing a light about four miles from Margate pier. At 11.24...

Workington, Cumberland.—At 10.50 on the night of the 21st of May, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy had been reported to be drifting towards Workington south buoy. The life-boat Man- chester & Salford XXIX...

Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.36 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the fishing vessel Fisher Lass of Sanday was overdue on passage from Kirkwall to Sanday. At 6.20 the life...

IN December, 1928, the Institution received the following letter from Mill- brook, Ontario, Canada :— " In the Toronto, Can., Globe of Dec. 8th, I saw an interesting article about the work of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. I...

RUNSWICK.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N.E., with a heavy sea,on the 5th November, the schooner Jane and Ellen, of and for Whitby, from Seaham, with a cargo of coal, lost her sails and became unmanageable. She showed signals of...

ABERDOVEY.—The Life-boat Royal Berkshire put off during a gale and rough sea, on the 7th September, and saved'the ketch Daring, of Barnstaple, which had been driven into Cardigan Bay. Her mainsail had been torn to ribbons; she was fast...

MARCH 24TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. The military reported an attack tenmiles south of Flat Head, but when the lifeboat reached the position, three and a half hours later, she found nothing. After she had returned explosions and gunfire were...

March 1996 Albert Haines, ex-coxswain of Dungeness lifeboat. Albert's service with the Institution began in 1941 as a crew member of Dungeness lifeboat, becoming bowman in 1947. In 1965 he was appointed second coxswain with promotion to...