LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitstable’s B class lifeboat Oxford Town & Gown helped save the 1901-built wooden sailing barge Marjorie, which was holed in a collision during a barge race on 9 August. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, Marjorie had already been...

On 17 September, the trawler Dorothy May ran out of fuel, having been using it at a faster rate than usual.

A further fault meant that her battery hadn’t charged and she lost electrical power, rendering her radio useless....

A brand new, state-of-the-art lifeboat arrived at Appledore station at the end of March but she was saving lives weeks before while on trials off the south Devon coast.

During sea trials, in force 6–7 winds, a mayday call...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At...

HOLYHEAD.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out on service on the morning of the 26th Jan., 1893, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Sarah, of and from Fowey for Euncorn, which had stranded on the...

A PLEASANT ceremony took place at Cromer on the 23rd May, 1962, when Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, unveiled a memorial to the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg. The memorial takes the form of a bronze bust and bronze...

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.

On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...

On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...