LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.

It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...

BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...

From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...

Rock pool FALMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of St Agnes lifeboat station at 1817 on Friday August 6, 1982, reporting a youth trapped on rocks at Porthtowan swimming pool, about 3'/2 miles south west of St...

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LAST November, for the first time since 1924, the Centenary year, a Lifeboat took part in the Lord Mayor's Show. The Boat was a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat from the Reserve Fleet at the Store-yard at Poplar. She was drawn by a...

14th November, 1956.

SIR, I would like to record my apprecia- tion of the Life-boat Service in general, and of the Sheringham life-boat in particular.

I was unfortunate enough to be wrecked recently in S.S...

THE Institution has awarded its Silver Medal to Coxswain George Robinson, of New Brighton, on the Mersey, and its Bronze Medal to each of the eight members of the Crew, for their gallantry in rescuing 23 men of the French steamer Emile...