LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS

James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...

The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off at 9 P.M. on the 17th May, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Glad Tidings, of Aberystwith, in ballast, which was in a dangerous position in the bay during a strong gale from the S.W....

Boulmer, Northumberland.—During the morning of the 27th June, 1938, eight motor fishing cobles from Boulmer and Alnmouth were caught at sea by bad weather. All the life-boat's officers were at sea, and the Clarissa Langdon .

THE Life-boat Calendar for 1932 is now ready. It has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting which Mr.

Charles Dixon, R.I., has very kindly done for the Institution called " At the Height of the Storm." It...

SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...

THE magnificence and terror of a gale on the rock-bound coasts of Cornwall can scarcely be exaggerated. The long impe- tuous swell of the great Atlantic, flinging itself on the rugged granite cliffs which guard the shores, is by its own...

The third call came about 7 A.M., when it was reported that a yacht had been seen drifting up the Solent.

The wind was still blowing a strong gale, at this time from the W.S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat...

Presentation of Prizes in the London District.

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the llth March, the Mayor of Westminster (Major V. B. Rogers, D.S.O., M.C.) presided at the Presentation of the Prizes won in the Life-boat...