LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

About half-past three on the morning of the 2nd June, in thick weather, a fisherman reported that a three-masted vessel was anchored within about a quarter of a mile of the Wbitby Rock Buoy, close to the rocks, and in a very dangerous...

An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—A vessel having been observed stranded on Bernbridge Ledge, the Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 8.50 P.M. on the 2nd January and proceeded through a rough sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from W.N.W., to...

On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...

D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had... - View image in PDF

Padstow, Cornwall - At 9.28 p.m. on ist April, 1967, red flares were reportedat a position eight miles north of Killan Head. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick proceeded at 10 o'clock in a strong south westerly wind and a choppy sea. It...

I.—Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.

Seconded by Vice-Admiral SIR GEORGE SARTORIUS.

1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.

2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL, Esq.,...

Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...