LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Christmas Gales.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 9.36 on the morning of the 20th of December, 1950, the coastguard reported a sailing barge showing distress signals in the North Bay. At 10.10 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched in a moderate...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About three in, the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an auxiliary sailing yacht, one and a half miles to the eastward, was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott,...

Salcombe, Devon.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1953, the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a sailing boat wassignalling for help half a mile south- west of Prawle Point. At 6.5 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...

DINGHY CAPSIZED At 8.23 p.m. later the same day the coxswain saw a sailing dinghy capsize about one mile south-east of Ramsgate.

There was a moderate to fresh northwesterly breeze with a moderate sea. It was two hours...

James Vaughan is the RNLI’s new Corporate Services Director, taking over from Ian Ventham who retired in August after 18 years with the charity. Promoted internally from Head of Fundraising and Communications Services, James is now...

Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.

One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...