LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 4.35 in the morning of the llth of October, 1948, the coastguard reported a message from the British steamer Woodlark that she had collided with and sunk the fishing vessel Saphir, of Camaret, three miles north-west...

BIRTHDAY AND NEW YEAR HONOURS CB Rear-Admiral I. G. W. Robertson, DSC, RN, Admiral Commanding Reserves and an ex-officio member of the Committee of Management.

CBE Commander F. R. H. Swann, RNVR, Chairman of the Committee...

Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.

This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...

The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...

Torbay (Devon).

Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...

Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...

Coxswain Francis Mair, of Buckie, Banffshire, has been awarded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for rescuing the crew of an R.A.F. launch.

He took the life-boat right over the rocks on which the launch lay,...

Two men serving in the merchant navy took the places of two absent men in the Maryport life-boat when she put out in a gale to search for an aeroplane. They were given the same rewards as the life-boatmen, nineteen shillings each. One of...