LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...

Torbay: On September 22, 1983, a young man fell 60ft into the sea when rocks crumbled beneath his feet on cliffs at Babbacombe. Two friends pulled the injured man from the sea, raised the alarm and then returned with blankets. Torbay's... - View image in PDF

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at Newbiggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...

On the 7th September, the ship R. H.

Tucker, of Winconsin, U.S., struck on the Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, and the following day was totally destroyed by fire. The Cahore life-boat put off early in the morning,...

Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...

During a moderate easterly gale on the 31st October, several vessels which were at anchor off Rosslare Harbour got into a dangerous position owing to their anchors not holding. Seeing they were in danger, Coxswain Hayes launched the...

In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...