LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Inaugural Ceremony of " Robert Patton—The Always Ready." H.R.H. The Princess Royal named the new motor life-boat at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, on 20th September, in the presence of over 5,000 people from all parts of Yorkshire.<...

POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...

Thursday, Sept. 6, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and the Wreck and Reward...

THURSO, N.B.—Eleven lives were saved by the Life-boat Charley Lloyd, on the afternoon of the 7th March. On that day a heavy gale was blowing from W.N.W., when the barque Walker Hall, of Sunderland, having dragged her anchors from Scrabster...

BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.

Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — During a strong E.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the llth December, 1937, anxiety was felt for the safety of the Burnmouth fishing yawls returning to harbour. The new motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...

Hayling Island's Atlantic 75 lifeboat Betty Battle Picture. Ricfc Tomlmwo. - View image in PDF

AT 6.35 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station, Captain W. H. H. Treloar, learnt from the police that four people needed help in Smugglers' Cave near Hellsmouth. The cave lies...