LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At about 5.20 A.M. on the 22nd January, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Hetty, of Falmouth, which was in Fishguard Bay. In response the crew of the Motor Life-Boat Charter- house were assembled, and the boat...

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Stranded under cliffs BRIXHAM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Torbay lifeboat station at 1431 on Monday, August 23, 1976, that survivors from a wrecked speedboat were stranded on a beach at Forest Cove under overhanging...

An eggs-tra special gift The fabulous Faberge-style egg created for the RNLI in Chichester by Ebony Jewellers in South Street has finally found a home.

Sothebys valued the egg at £20,000, an amount which the Worshipful...

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...

Dover, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of January, 1952, the Eastern Harbour Arm Signal Station reported that the tanker Sovac Radiant, of Panama, had gone aground in Fan Bay, and at 10.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...

The RNLI is working nationally with many safety-related bodies to promote safety at sea, but the Island Cruising Club and its local lifeboat station are already working well together...

Richard Johnstone-Bryden reports from...