LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat Solomon Browne would be required to take a sick man off the Swedish tanker...

Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset-At 11.35 p.m. on I2th April, 1966, the Barry coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men in an open fishing boat were overdue. They had left the River Axe at midday, intending to return at...

125 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1864 issue LIFEBOATS FOR THE FRENCH COAST We have much pleasure in being able to report that the French Government have decided to place some lifeboats on the coasts of France....

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 1 A.M. on the 17th October, 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel was standing into danger near the Middle Binks. A light, variable wind was blowing. The sea was smooth.

At 1.15...

Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 2.30 p.m. on 25th May, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a man on an inflatable air bed had drifted away from Clarach beach and was now a mile offshore. At 2.45 inshore rescue boat...

MARCH 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

At 11 A.M. it was reported that H.M. Tug Fairplay II had stranded on the West Salt Scar Rock, near Redcar. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched.

The...

Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital. Maroons were...

For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...