LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.16 p.m. on 9th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in danger of being driven ashore in Seaford Bay.

The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.25 in a moderate to fresh...

The Marquis of Normanby was elected to the Committee of Management in 1972. He became a Vice President in 1984 and was elected Life Vice President in 1987..

On the 13th March the Life-boat was again called out, a mounted messenger arriving at SAO P.M. and reporting a schooner in danger of running aground on the rocks. The Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found she was the Jessie Ray, of...

FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....

At 10.25 A.M. on 4th December the Coast- guard informed the Life-boat Authori- ties by telephone that a boat was flying signals of distress four miles E.N.E. of Seaton Sluice Coastguard Station, and the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam promptly...

NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 21st January, 1942, the Newcastle life-boat rescued thirty-nine of the crew of the S.S. Browning, of Liverpool.

COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded the gold medal.

SECOND...

Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 14th of May. 1956, the master of the S.S. Earl Tkorpin re- ported to the honorary secretary that a Mayday distress signal had been broadcast by Wick radio station. The Kirkwall coastguard...

THE 37-feet life-boat, which is described in detail on page 91, adds one more development to an impressive list of major improvements in the design and construction of life-boats and life-saving equipment in the past six or seven...