LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NORTH SUNDERLAND has had a life-boat station since 1827. It was taken over by the Institution in 1852. Beyond the date of its establishment, and the fact that between 1827 and 1852 it had two life-boats, the second of which was transferred...

Thousands of happy passengers have already enjoyed a fabulous Ocean Cruise with award-winning tour operator Travelscope. savouring life on board the ever-popular MV Van Gogh ocean liner. On the back of this success and due to overwhelming...

Whilst the new Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was being navigated from Liverpool to her station on the 27th June by a party of New Brighton Life-boatmen, the attention of the Coxswain was drawn by a passing dredger to a small yacht, which...

Whitehills, Banfishire.—4th December.

At 7.10 A.M. the coastguard reported that a distress flare had been seen about three miles N.W. of East Head. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help eight and a half miles west-north-west of St.

Ives Head. Five minutes...

Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.55 early on the morning of the 12th of June, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a woman living at Elie that an outboard motor boat on passage from St. Andrews to...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard told the coxswain that a dinghy had capsized two hundred yards off shore opposite the Grand Hotel at Frinton. The life- boat Edian Courtauld put...

The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...