LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 13TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. Rockets had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £14 6s. 6d..

The Lady Leigh Life- boat of this station saved 6 men from a Ashing coble in great danger off this Port on the 8th Feb..

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—27th November, 1937. A small yacht was missing, but could not be found. She had stranded, but'had refloated and reached port next morning.—Rewards, £11 14*..

NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Five men from an aeroplane were adrift in a rubber dinghy, but they were picked up by a steamer. - Rewards, £35 13s..

Letters of Gratitude.

AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...

The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.

At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...

Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.

Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...