LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 21ST. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At 12 noon a message was received from the R.A.F. Observer Corps at Squires Gate that an R.A.F. pilot who was on patrol had reported a parachute down in the sea about three miles...

Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...

There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.

These two boats lie on the open sandy...

ANXIOUS PARENTS Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.35 a.m. on 2oth May, 1964, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the parents of two youths who had not returned from a fishing trip in an 18-foot motor boat were...

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

NOV. 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORK.

SHIRE. At about 7 P.M. information was received from the Withernsea coastguard that a vessel was making S.O.S. signals on her foghorn from the position of the Danish steamer Canada which had...

Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.

In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...

From a photograph of a cast of an alabaster medallion of Hillary by Wyon, engraver of the Kings Seals, who also designed the Institution's Medals. After Hillary's death in 1847, his grand-daughters presented the medallion to Mr. J. H... - View image in PDF