LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.

In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...

Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.

Its surface, once sealed, is...

Lytham lifeboat, John Kennedy, is launched down Lytham Jetty in front of the large crowd of guests and onlookers. - View image in PDF

PENARTH. — A bright flare light was seen in the roadstead at 1 A.M. on the 27th Jannary, during squally weather, the wind blowing from W. and N.W.

The Joseph Denman Life-boat proceeded in the direction of the light, and...

Snow joke: pity this poor fund raiser; after a hard morning in March with his collecting box outside Rod White's fish shop in Cray don, during which time he collected a magnificent £27.10, he sadly disappeared into a premature, and... - View image in PDF

Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 3.45 in the afternoon on the 2nd of April, 1950, fishermen reported that the fishing coble Jean and Valerie was making very heavy weather about four miles to the south. Accordingly at 4.10 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...

Mrs Jean Rose, president of Heworth ladies' guild since 1992 having previously served as founder chairman since 1968. Until 1945 she had been a member of the Port Rush committee in Ireland and after moving to England inthat year she...

JULY

Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.

JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...