LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...

AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.

D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...

St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...

Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...

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THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.

Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...

At 8.30 A.M.

on the 29th January it was reported to the Coxswain that a vessel was flying signals of distress about four miles N. W.

of Bull Bay. The Life-boat James Gullen was launched in a very heavy sea...

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...