LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th December the motor life-boat George Shee rescued the master of the trawler Satanicle, of Cherbourg, which was in distress in the Channel. The life-boat was on service for ten hours in a whole gale,...

THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...

TROON, SCOTLAND. —The schooner Mistletoe, of Brixham, bound from Saffi, N. Africa, for Irvine, with a cargo of beans, went ashore on Lady Island, on the night of the 6th September. On the following day a strong gale sprung up from the S.W.,...

At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER FEBRUARY 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About three in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station on the Humber reported that a mine had exploded in the convoy anchorage north of one of the two gate...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor barge needed help one mile north-east of the North Knob buoy. At 11.36 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...

In its 140th year of saving lives at sea, New Brighton lifeboat station saw a new arrival in October 2004. The inshore rescue hovercraft, to be named Hurley Spirit, will play a vital role in the RNLI's lifesaving operations on the...

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...