LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TOW FOR SCHOONER WITH SEA CADETS ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares half a mile off Abbotsbury. Seven minutes later the...

Mrs Florence Ashingdon watches her solicitor William Nigh christen Gordon England after she had officially named the D class inflatable.. - View image in PDF

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, determined efforts were made by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to give help to the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.

COXSWAIN CHARLES A....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...

Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(.Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

President—ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF...

On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant...

By Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.founder, Sir William thus a few months THE Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer was founded in August, 1825, by the joint efforts of two members...