LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Injured crews THE HARBOUR MASTER of Bridlington, Yorkshire, informed the honorary secretary at 1320 on Friday, December 28, 1973, that the trawler VolesusofGrimsby had an injured man aboard. The relief lifeboat Calouste Giilbenkian was...

Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...

BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...

Greek tragedy? Never could five members of the Redcar lifeboat station have imagined that their sailing holiday, 1,300 nautical miles from home, would turn into a life-saving rescue mission involving great skill and...

NOVEMBER 14TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A steamer had called for help at night, but the life-boat could not find her, and it was learned later that she had been able to go slowly on her way. - Rewards, £18 9s..

Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...

Youghal: Mr Patrick Lineham, chairman of Youghal branch welcomes guests on Sunday July 14, 1985 to the dedication of the station's Atlantic 21 lifeboat, Marjory Turner, the first of her class to be stationed in Ireland. She was the gift... - View image in PDF

New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...