LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the five years since war was declared on 3rd. September, 1939, our lifeboats have put out to the help of ships and aeroplanes 3,385 times and have rescued 5,777 lives. That is an average of 22 lives every week. It is more lives rescued in...

There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.

These two boats lie on the open sandy...

By the death of Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham; on 17th May last, at the age of ninety-five, the Institution lost a friend who, in spite of her great age and the loss of her sight fifty years ago, found means to help it until her...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...

MARCH 1 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 4s.

(See Port Isaac, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 95.).

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A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...

AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...