LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AGM 1986. Governors please note The RNLI's annual meetings for 1986 will take place on Tuesday May 13 at the South Bank, London. The governor's annual general meeting will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the...

DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

Four saved from MFV among rocks in hurricane-force gustsCoxswain David Chant of the St Davids lifeboat, Dyfed, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of four fishermen in severe gales on 26...

Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 11.39 p.m. on 21st February, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about one mile east of Skegness pier. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 12.10...

Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1956, a report was received that a fishing vessel had broken down off Crosskirk, near Brimness. At 10.50 the life-boat Dunnet Head, Civil Service No. 31 was launched in a...

NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor...

EVER since the first pioneers settled in Canterbury, and sailing ships carried their cargo up the Heathcote River to Ferrymead, the ever-changing Sumner Bar has been notorious for its vicious moods and the number of lives and ships it has...