LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been...

WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...

Cut off by tide SOME CHILDREN cut off by the tide on rocks near Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, were reported to the honorary secretary of Kinghorn ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1430 on Thursday, July 29.

The rocks, an...

Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,864 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,742 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day). Note to those entering Shoreline competition: the 1985 lives...

Moorings parted PENTLAND COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station at 0915 on Sunday January 22, 1984, to report that the 16-ton fishing vessel Benachie had parted her moorings and gone on to the beach on the...

At 1233 on Tuesday November 18, a mayday was received by Dover Coastguard from the trawler Guiding Hand, on fire six miles north east of Ramsgate.

Her four crew were fighting the fire. A helicopter was scrambled from RAF...

The Life-boat Charles Hargrave was launched in a strong N.W. by W. gale and heavy sea to the assistance of several of the local fishing-boats, which had been overtaken, when at sea, on the afternoon of the 20th December. The boats Ivy Leaf...

A list of branches and guilds from the Greater London and Eastern Regions GREATER LONDON RNLI 202 Lambeth Road London SE1 7JW Tel 071-928 5742 Regional Organiser, Miss A. Wilkins London Camberwell Central Chiswick and Hammersmith City...