LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Above: The naming ceremony of Phyl Clare 2. - View image in PDF

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 37, 45, 57, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aith,...

SUPPORTED SOLELY BT VOLCHTARY OOKTBIBUTIOBS.

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Kart Meyrick was fishing from the end of Porthcawl Pier on 2 February 2002 when a giant wave swept him off the pier and into the sea below. There had been a severe gale blowing for the past 24 hours and enormous waves were completely...

MARCH 11TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At 6.10 A.M. a message was receivedfrom the coastguard that the Swedish steamer O. A. Brodin, of Stockholm, had gone ashore north of St. Bees. There was dense fog, with a smooth sea. At...

WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...

The Story of a Whitby Rescue.

[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...

Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was quick to spot an inaccuracy in the caption to the photograph of the Workington life-boat which appeared on page 493 of the December, 1968, issue Of...