LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...

ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR DRIFTING CANOE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and an eleven-year-old girl in a canoe had drifted out of sight off...

After Haringey, London, youth branch had been shown life-boat films, their chairman, Mr. K. R. Batchelor, received several letters from children showing their appreciation. Two of the letters are reproduced here in their original form: Sv ...

Engine failure IN A STRONG north-north-easterly gale, force 9, and snow showers, the skipper of the Fraserburgh fishing vessel, John Scott, contacted Shetland coastguard at 1945 on Wednesday April 24, 1985 to report that his engine had...

At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...

THE 29th July last was "Life-boat Sunday" at Bangor Cathedral, sermons being preached by the Rev. T. LLOYD KYFFIN, M.A., Rector of Llanfaes, Angle- sey, formerly Honorary Secretary at the Cemaes Life-boat Station, and the col-...

RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—At 4.20 A.M., on the 18th May, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W., a screw-steamer was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, with signals of distress flying; and about the same time signal guns were fired from the...

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...