LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.

During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...

Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...

During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.

Rye's C class inflatable The Lewes... - View image in PDF

Mrs Nan McLees, president of Motherwell guild from 1957, and thereafter honorary president of Glasgow (South) committee.

Mrs McLees received a gold badge in 1987 and a silver badge in 1968..

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 5.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was ashore on the Cardiff sands.

The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 5.15 in a gale force...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker San Cirilo, of London, had asked for a doctor to attend a man suspected of having appendicitis. At 8.45 the life-boat...

" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." WE are not about to write a sermon, although we have commenced with a text; but the sentiment...

Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At six in the evening of the 16th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that two sailing yachts were becalmed in fog,jone to the north of the pier and the other to the south, and that they were a danger...