LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk. At i.io a.m.

on 16th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a message from the North Haisbro lightvessel that red flares had been sighted in a position six...

Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.

on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...

An evening auction of antiques and fine art at Bonham's Montpelier Galleries, Knightsbridge, on May 25, organised by the Central London Committee and conducted by Nicholas Bonham, raised nearly £6,000 for the lifeboat service. The...

At about 9 A.M. on the 14th February a vessel was seen riding with two anchors down, not far from a lee shore, about five miles W. of Margate. Her sprit and sails had been blown away and apparently the seas were washing completely over...

RUNAWAY SPEEDBOAT THE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, inshore rescue boat had an unusual service on l l th August when 'the Coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was going round in circles' about one and a half miles...

THE Board of Trade have recently issued their most interesting and well- arranged Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns relative to the many shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At four o'clock on the morning of the 25th July, 1961, the son of the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Jaffy Again told the honorary secretary that his father's boat was overdue from a fishing trip. At...

PRESERVATION OF LITE PROM SHIPWRECK.

Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...