LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

26th November. A barge had gone ashore, but she got off without help and went on her way.— Rewards, £58 13s..

Hoylake, Cheshire.—2nd August. A yacht was in distress, but another yacht took her in tow.—Rewards, £9 05. 3d..

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 8 p.m. on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted one and a half miles south of South Shields pier. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 8.5 in a...

TWO RESCUED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 5.12 p.m. on 18th August, 1965, the harbour office reported that a boat had capsized behind the west pier. The life-boat Dunleary II went out at 5.20 in a gentle westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1965, the IRB launched to go to the assistance of a person on board a pleasure cruiser which had grounded at Breydon Water the previous day. There was a fresh gusting to...

Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. At 1.30 p.m. on i6th December, 1965, the second coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting, out of control, down the channel on the ebb tide. The life-boat Calouste Gulbenkian was...

Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.27 p.m. on 18th May, 1966, a woman informed the honorary secretary that she and her husband had been in a motor boat which capsized in Lantio Bay, but they had managed to scramble ashore. The lifeboat Deneys Reitz was...

A good deal: the Thames was much calmer than Bruce Forsyth when he was taken for a ride in a D class inflatable lifeboat. The lifeboat was the result of a special Christmas version of Brace's TV show Play Your Cards Right when the... - View image in PDF