LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 2.16 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that six people were cut off by the tide on a ledge at Thornwick'bay, one mile north west of the life-boat station. The life-boat...

Salcombe, Devon - At 1.50 p.m. on 14th July, 1968, the motor mechanic was informed that a yacht had capsized on the harbour bar. The lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.57 in a strong west south westerly wind and a...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.

on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...

Cut off by the tide DURING THE AFTERNOON of Sunday, January 3, 1988 the station honorary secretary of Staithes and Runswick was informed by a member of the public that four adults and two boys were cut off by the tide a few yards from the...

D class, Tyne and X boat rescue fallen climber Holyhead's D class inflatable was called out at 1600 on 21 April to a man who had fallen 90ft from a cliff at North Stack.

The D class was taken through rough, surging 6ft...

JANUARY 3RD. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

When off Cape Cornwall the Cardiff steamer Strait Fisher capsized. Her cargo had shifted. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was cold. The motor...

Lady Baring.

ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the committee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness....

The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...