LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 20th September the Royal Firth, of Glasgow, a steamer of about 400 tons, struck the Mahon Rock near the Tuskar Lighthouse, while bound from Blyth to Eosslare laden with coals.

Shortly after 6 P.M. the vessel was seen...

FLEETWOOD.—On the 29th August, at about 5 A.M., it was reported that a vessel was in distress on Bernard's Wharf, a sandbank situated about 2i miles E.N.E.

of Fleetwood, and the Life-boat Edward Wasey was accordingly...

APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.

A northerly pale was blowing with a very...

Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...

Thank you for my journal (the Lifeboat, Winter issue). The prize-winning photograph taken by Neville Murphy, of the Dunmore East station crew changing room, brought back memories  of my boyhood. When in Sunderland, I accompanied my...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...

Facts and Figures Provisional figures show that in 1985 lifeboats launched 3,003 times, saving 1,351 lives.

In 1984 lifeboats launched 3,631 times (an average of nearly ten times a day) and saved 1,336 lives (an average of...