LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mrs. Smith of Southport has handed to the Southport Guild the sum of £5, raised by a collection of a penny a week contributed by each member of the St. Andrew's Inner Wheel over 6o's Club.

Topsham Sailing Club...

Drifting in a raging storm in the middle of the Irish Sea, the crew of the stricken Greek freighter, Nafsiporos, feared they’d never see their families again. Who had the skill and courage to get to them in time? It’s only 3½ weeks...

Margate, Kent. At 6.5 on the even- ing of the 13th of November, 1957, an anticipatory message was received from the coastguard reporting a message from the United States Air Force base at Manston that two Thunder Jet air- craft were missing....

SINCE the end of the war in 1945 the number of calls for life-boat assistance emanating from yachtsmen—a term used as conveniently indicating people who go to sea for pleasure rather than profit—has steadily increased. Life-boat calls to...

AT Lowestoft on Saturday the 21st July, 1962, a large number of holiday- makers watched a drama take its course as a trimaran was brought safely into harbour after spending some hours in distress in full view of the...

French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...

OCTOBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so...

In these days when the telephone is more attractive than letter writing it is always a pleasure to receive a hand-written note. Early this year the R.N.L.I.

received 28 such letters from pupils of Pinkwell Junior School,...