LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LLANAELHAIARN, CARNARVONSHIRE, The fishing boat Annie Jones, of Carnarvon, was seen in great danger about two or three miles from land, in squally weather, on the 24th August. Her mainsail was torn to pieces; she was drifting out to sea, and...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 2.59 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht apparently in diffi- culties and dragging her anchor off Colne Point. At 3.0 the...

At 11 A.M. on the 17th May a N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy broken sea, and the local fishing boat Branch, with a crew of four, was still at sea. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes put out at 11.10 A.M. She picked up the Branch about a...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 3.43 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a yacht off Bembridge ledge was seen firing red flares. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 3.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours after...

Happy return: the Duchess of Kent paid a visit to Torbay lifeboat station on September 24 to see again the lifeboat she officially named 11 years earlier and which has since saved over 200 lives. She is seen here beside Coxswain Arthur... - View image in PDF

MAY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. About one in the afternoon the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat off Pett Level appeared to be in difficulties, though she was not showing distress signals. At 1.35 the motor life-boat Cyril...

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...

TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor...