LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 19TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During a north-northeast gale of eighty-seven miles an hour, cries for help were heard and it was believed that a small boat was in difficulties, but nothing was found. It was...

(Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials .

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Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.55 P.M. on the llth February, 1939, a telephone message was received that the Goningbeg Light-vessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...

Dungeness, Kent - At 10.15 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties four miles south south east of Dungeness. The motor vessel Mouthouet was standing by. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson...

Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 8.15 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat from Milford Haven could not be found in the harbour, but that a small boat with two people on...

Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present

Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...