LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 7 A.M., on the 29th January, the fishing cobles, twentyeight in number, put to sea. At 10 o'clock the wind began to freshen, increasing to a gale from E.N.E. accompanied by a rough sea and showers of rain and snow....

At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...

Photographers save fishermen in GaleA rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards from the RNLI. The owner of the boat, Rick Tomlinson (a former crew...

Garden gnome By dressing up as a garden gnome in last year's Aldeburgh carnival, lifeboat supporter Mr M. H. Catterick won a personal bet for £100 which he very generously donated to the RNLI.

Netball shoot Eight...

SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...

LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.

" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...

On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...

MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...