LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launch from the beach of Charles Fred Grantham, Skegness's present 37ft Oakley lifeboat, by carriage and tractor.. - View image in PDF

Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...

'There is another type of courage...

...the stoic acceptance of wives, husbands, partners and parents who never know whether their loved ones will return from a shout.'Another special kind of courage The courage of...

RAMSGATE.—Signal guns from the Gull and Goodwin Lightships were heard at 10.30 A.M. on the 3rd May, and a schooner was seen to run ashore on the North Sand Head. The wind at the time was blowing from the N. The Life-boat Bradford and harbour...

Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.

MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.40 on the night of the llth of February, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals between Bognor and Littlehampton, and the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 11 o'clock.

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Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...

THE deep interest that has recently been awakened throughout the country on the subject of the preservation of life from ship- wreck, by the publication of the Report of the Life-Boat Committee, appointed to award the premium offered by the...