LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...

WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...

(Right) An RAF Sea King, one of the most modern and most powerful search and rescue helicopters. - View image in PDF

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On the 14th April, during 'a very severe gale of wind, a brig was seen to part from her anchors in the Mumbles Roads, and to bum signals of distress. The Wolverhampton life-boat was promptly launched, and remained by the vessel until,...

The Countess of Dartmouth being presented with an evening stole, hand-knitted by Mr. George Welburn, coxswain of Bridlington life-boat. The presentation was made during the annual fashion show organized by the Bridlington branch of the... - View image in PDF

Dover, Kent.—At 12.48 in the morn- ing of the 16th of January, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Llanstephan Castle had reported that a Sea Scout launch had broken down five miles south of Folkestone, and the life-boat...

BOY FALLS FROM THE CLIFFS Wicklow.—On the evening of the 18th of May, 1947, a boy fell from the cliffs into the sea near the Wicklow Head Lighthouse. A life-buoy was thrown to him by a keeper and, although exhausted, the boy -was able...

THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...