LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.

In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...

Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—10th January.

A trawler had been wrecked off Ardbeg and had foundered in fifteen minutes. Four of her crew were lost, but nine scrambled on to rocks, from which eight were rescued by a steamer...

Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...

JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.

AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...

Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...

Coverack, Cornwall - At 9.52 p.m.

on 9th April, 1969, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy on passage from Falmouth to Coverack was overdue.

At 10 o'clock the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...

AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.

Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...

theLifeboat asks Ian Ventham, former head of fundraising and marketing, to reflect on his time at the fundraising helm and we speak to his successor, David Brann, on his vision for the future.Ian What notable changes in fundraising have you...