LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fall from cliff THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Abersoch ILB station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1701 on Thursday August 23, 1979, that a boy had fallen from the cliff at Llanbedrog Head, two miles north east of the station. The...

Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...

Zetland pictured in the 1877 boathouse at Redcar, which is now a museum dedicated to the 190-year-old lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

I HAVE received a copy of a pamphlet giving a brief historical survey of the work of our sister society in France, from the pen of Commandant Granjon de Lepiney,...

* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...

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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.32 on the morning of the 8th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Flevo of Groningen had run aground near Laver Point east of St. Ives Bay. The life- boat Edgar,...

Lives saved.

Astrsea, schooner, of Dartmouth—• rendered assistance.

Alfred, ketch, of Padstow—rendered assistance and landed 4.

Ardlethen, P.S., of Aberdeen—ren- dered...