LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.

At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 5.55 on the evening of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steamer Clan Mclver had picked up a rowing boat with one man on board and had asked if the life-boat would take...

Sir Alec Rose, president of Havant branch, by David Shutte, of Whitbread Solent Inns. Jim Cadman (I), managing director of Swan Housewares, also donated a further £500 worth of goods for future fund-raising.. - View image in PDF

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 21st of July, 1950, the Ventnor coastguard passed on a message from the steamer Stability that the yacht Corinne, of Glasgow, was dis- abled and in need of help. Half an hour later the...

BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the most distinguished of its honorary workers. In spite of his many...

The crew of Calshot lifeboat are celebrating following the official opening of their much longed for lifeboat station on the edge of the Solent.. - View image in PDF

Above: Roy Castle and the crew of Yarmouth lifeboat at the making of the Shipshapes video for children.. - View image in PDF