LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PORT EYNON.—The Life-boat A Daughter's Offering put off at 12.45 P.M. on the 17th November, while a moderate gale was blowing from the W.N.W., and saved a man from the boat belonging to the ketch Favourite, of Milford. In returning to...

On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a New Brighton stage- man that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the...

Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...

Fishing vessel towed to safety The fishing vessel Orkney Reiver of Kirkwall fouled her propeller with a fishing net and was drifting eight miles south west of Fitful Head, Shetland on 10 November.

There being no other...

HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...

Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.

She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...