LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 27TH. - LLANDUDNO,CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.45 P .M. a message came from the coastguard that the Llandudno fishing boat Pilot No. 3 was in distress two miles east of the pier head, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards...

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Cromer, Norfolk. On 28th December, 1965, the No. i life-boat Henry Blogg was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem. A full account of this service appears on page 63..

BALLANTRAE.—On 23rd January, about 8 o'clock at night, when blowing very hard from the S.W., the brig Aurora, of Ardrossan, bound from Belfast to that port, was observed drifting in on the shore in a disabled condition and exhibiting...

26 April: New Brighton Having already towed 11 fishermen ashore after they suffered propeller problems, New Brighton lifeboat crew launched in search of five sailors in trouble aboard a yacht. They found it in...

Duckham's visit: for many years now Alexander Duckham & Co Ltd (Duckhams Oils) has helped the RNLI in a variety of ways. It was appropriate, therefore, that during a visit to RNLI headquarters in Poole, in July, the company's... - View image in PDF

Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1966, the honorary medical adviser requested the services of the lifeboat to convey him to attend a sick man aboard the Russian vessel Alatyrles. At 3.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...

ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...