LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...

ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.

submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.

This was...

AUG. 6TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

A bather had been reported in difficulties by the pilots, but the life-boat could find no sign of him. He was already drowned. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..

APRIL. 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At midnight on the 14th April, the Donaghadee coastguard asked the life-boat to stand by at the harbour ready to take on board an armed guard. A west wind was blowing, with squalls, and...

JULY 23RD. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.

DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Dun Laoghaire, £11 14s. ; Wicklow, £15 1s. 3d..

THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...

Thanks to stalwart fundraiser Violet Howes, who has been knitting dolls and selling them in aid of the Institution for over 15 years. Although Violet is nearly 85 years old and suffering from arthritis, she produces a wide range of quality... - View image in PDF

About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.

Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...