LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 30TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 9.10 in the morning the naval control reported that an invasion barge was lying near the Blacktail Spit Buoy with her engine broken down and nothing to secure her. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing...

Jan. 9. — Voted 42. to four fishermen for putting off in a boat and saying four men whose boat bad been capsized while returning to tbeir vessel, the Baron Hill, of Liverpool, which was lying off Exmouth, in a strong W. gale on the 4th...

— On the evening of the 9th November a police- man reported that a man on Brechou Island had telephoned that a vessel thought to be his motor drifter White Heather, was showing signals of distress about three miles north of Sark. A...

Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.50 p.m.

on r6th September, 1966, a message was received that a doctor was required by the U.S. salvage vessel Kittiwake which was on passage to Dogger Bank to search for a sunken German...

Wedding Day Shout

As Lough Swilly Crew Member Francy Burns took the microphone for his wedding speech, his bride-to be, Helen, was surprised to hear the sound of a pager instead of the traditional declarations of love....

Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...

IT WAS QUIPS AND LAUGHTER all the way when Paul Daniels, comedian and conjuror, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's ninth national lottery at Poole HQ on Thursday July 31. The draw was supervised by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...