LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress from a vessel at 8.45 P.M. on the 7th March during a south-westerly gale. He at once assembled the crew and launched the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox. On arrival he found the bar-...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat told the second coxswain that the weather had made conditions on the outer harbour bar verv dangerous and that the local fishing boat...

Celebrity Ronnie Corbett was the guest of honour at North Sunderland's lifeboat fete, held on 25 August.

It proved to be a record fundraising day for the hard working local ladies lifeboat guild who were supported by... - View image in PDF

A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...

off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.5 early on the morning of the 2nd of No- vember 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that a mes- sage from the S.S. Themsleigh, of Hull, stating that she had run aground on the Gunfleet...

Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...