LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Legend has it that carrying acorns will bring you good luck and longevity. At Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station, it’s a belief that has been rooted for 117 years. Why? Because for one lifeboatman, the legend came true.

Augustus...

IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.

This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...

By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.

"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.

IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...

On Scroby Sand WHILE WORKING aboard their lifeboat on Saturday December, 1979, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston crew, at 1758, heard a mayday from the fishing vessel St Margarite. Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins told Yarmouth Coastguard that...

Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...

NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...

THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.

The...

POINT or AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and FORMBY (LANCASHIRE).—As previously mentioned in The Life-boat, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, having taken over these stations from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, has replaced the Life-boats on...