LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.

The Dungeness life-boat, the...

Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...

DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...

Abersoch, Gwynedd September 13, October 15 and 25 Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 1, October 14 and 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 9 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 2, 5 (three times), 15 and November 4...

Birthday Honours The following were honoured by HM The Queen in her Birthday Honours list for their services to the Institution: MBE: David Cargill. Mechanic at Arbroath lifeboat station from 1973 to February 1995, having joined the crew in...

IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...

South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....

Aberdovey, Gwynedd Septembers, November 12 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd September 16 and 17 Aberystwyth, Dyfed October 13 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 23 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan September 2. 3 and October 15 Barmouth, Gwynedd September...