LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUG. 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. During the evening a message was received from the coastguard that the steam drifter Excel IV was aground on Gun Rock, Fame Islands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The...

By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.

THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...

By Dr James A.Begg Published by Mercat Press ISBN 1841830542 Dr James A Begg dedicated this real-life account of dramatic search and rescue operations to 'all those engaged in search and rescue by air, land and...

Anstruther - Mersey class Kingdom of Fife The picturesque Fife harbour of Anstruther basked in glorious sunshine on 29 May 1992 for the launch of the station's new lifeboat Kingdom of Fife by HRH The Duchess of...

NEXT ISSUE APRIL OUT END OF MARCH £1.50 available from all Leading Newsagents L and your friendly •' cornershop BUYING OR SELLING? engines, outboards, radios, tenders, fishing rods, fog horns, canal boats, yachts, motor boats,...

Hand-held & Tripod-mounted BINOCULARS & TELESCOPES Since the turn of the century, Charles Frank Ltd.

have specialised in Binoculars and Telescopes, and the instruments which we manufacture in our Glasgow factory are...

Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...

PENZANCE.—This Life-boat establish- ment has been entirely renewed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a handsome new boat-house, provided with a bell-turret and bell, having been erected on a more convenient site, granted to the...