LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...

CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—A vessel was observed with two jibs set and signals of distress flying in her main rigging, about a mile from the shore, during a very strong breeze from the S. by E. and a heavy sea, at 9 A.M. on the 16th November. The...

Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 4.47 a.m.

on loth March; 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hadrian Coast was in difficulties off the Small's rocks, three miles south south west of the station....

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...

At 7.20 A.M. on the 7th June, during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea, the steamer Elswick, of Newcastle, drove ashore in Seaford Bay. The motor Life-Boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton at once proceeded to her, and found that she was in a very...

Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...

ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...

Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...