LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued' that on the 30th of June, 1886, there were 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the La,kes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...

(Above). The unpainled wheelhouse module (also in FRC) is craned into position on the hull.. - View image in PDF

The Lifeguard ‘It was high tide on the afternoon of 28 June and I had just come on duty at Trebarwith Strand, north Cornwall. The surf was rough and we were flying the red flag. I chatted with a couple of anglers, a dad and his stepson on...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.25 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, the yacht Wombat, lying a mile and a half south south east of Portland breakwater light, reported to Niton radio that she was taking in water and had run out of fuel. There was a gale from...

SCARBOROUGH.—The local Life-boat Association at Scarborough having recently joined the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the establishment was at once completely renovated, and a new boat—32 feet long, and rowing 10 oars, which had been...

SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...

At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on...

MR. WILLIAM LIGGINS, of Coventry, who died on the 29th of June, at the age of 97, was for over a third of his very long life associated with the Life-boat Service. He was honorary secretary of the Coventry branch from 1915 until 1933, and...