LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.10 on ryth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized two miles south-east of the life-boathouse. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 3.16 in a south-westerly wind...

Appledore, Devon.—At 11.5 in the morning, on the 17th of January, 1951, a motor barge was seen burning flares off Crow Point. At 11.15 the life-boatViolet Armstrong was launched in a very rough sea with a north-westerly- gale blowing. She...

The skippers of Aberdeen trawlers who are rewarded by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland when they recover tagged fish give their rewards to the R.N.L.I. They direct the Department to send the money to the honorary...

THE first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race in aid of the R.N.L.I, started at 11.00 hours on 2nd September, six cables north of the entrance to Granton harbour on the Firth of Forth. The race was the first international...

A Disaster at Arbroath.

EAELY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.

About seven in the morning the...

Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...

THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...

Winning hunch The winner of the RNLI's 44th national lottery has the Hunchback of Notre Dame to thank for drawing her ticket! Micky O'Donoughue was playing the role in the New Vic Company's comedy version of 'The Hunchback of...