LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of...

MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...

On the 12th November the French lugger ! Cyrano, of Brest, stranded about two miles off Mellish during a whole N.E.

gale and very heavy sea. In response to her signals of distress the crew of the \ Motor ...

Members of the Royal Artillery Band, with Peter Holness and Anthony Oliver at Headquarters, draw the winning tickets for the 55th National Lottery.. - View image in PDF

Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...

Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st of July, 1959, a firm of shipping agents informed the coxs- wain that the father of a boy aboard the s.s. Baxtergate of London was danger- ously ill. As there was no other suitable boat...

THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fourteenth time. The number of schools taking part was 2,501, an in- crease on last year of 294.

Of this...