LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bullocks over cliff PORT ISAAC HONORARY SECRETARY received a request from HM Coastguard at 1606 on October 5, 1975, for the ILB to be launched to stand by teams attempting to rescue bullocks which had fallendown a cliff into a small cove at...

Marginal conditions ^J for D class rescue On Easter Sunday morning last year Mablethorpe's D class inshore lifeboat saved two fishermen in conditions which were on the absolute limits for the class. The successful service earned her...

During foggy but smooth weather on the 6th June, information was received that a trawler had run ashore on the Bell Buoy Shoal, Scroby Sands. The crew of the Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...

On the 14th November the brigantine Elizabeth, of Drogheda, when off St. Bee's Head, during a gale of wind and in a very high sea, lost her mainmast, foretopmast, &e., and hoisted a signal of distress, where- upon the Elizabeth...

BROADSTAIRS.— The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched at 10 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of the brig Guide, which had been in collision in the Downs, and had lost both her anchors. The wind was blowing a strong gale...

RAMSGATE.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., with a heavy sea, on the 26th Match, the smack Ismene, of Ramsgate, was seen in Pegwell Bay, burning flares for assistance. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded out, in tow of the steam-tug...

Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was launched into the sweltering heat of 26 June to help six people in the water. Three children were being swept out to sea on bodyboards; their mother and grandfather tried to swim out to...

IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.

There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...