LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings...

SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Clovelly, Devon. At 2.15 a.m. on nth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a ship in distress had fired rockets north-west of Hartland Point. The lifeboat William Cantrell Ashley was launched in a moderate easterly...

The Royal Wiltshire life-boat at Dover remained alongside the schooner Remedy, of Whitstable, which was in a dan- gerous position near the Admiralty Pier, until the vessel was got but of danger.

Nov. 15TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX, AND B E M B R I D G E , I S L E O F W I G H T . A t 4.9 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Alaska, of Havre, a steamer of 8,000 tons, was in distress fourteen miles S.E. of the Owers...

THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 27th February, 1941, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of eight of the balloon ship Thora.

COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..

The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

Two of the horses and their owners are reunited with their rescuers. - View image in PDF

On The Turntable. - View image in PDF