LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 22ND. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

Seven men had been washed overboard from a destroyer at night in a whole gale, but they could not be found. - Rewards : Thurso, £13 18s. ; Longhope, £14...

FEBRUARY 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Red rockets, thought to have come from a vessel which had been in collision, had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £21 7s. 6d.

Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 219 Lord Saltoun, MC, by His Grace the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Committee of Management 220 XLVl Two Scottish Lifeboats capsize and right 220 4 /U Mountbatten of Burma 221 HRH The Duke of Kent...

EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...

ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...

Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...

South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.

She returned from this service at...

FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...