LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 8.30 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, a message was received that a man had fallen from the pier and had sustained severe head injuries. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat Mabel Marian Thompson left her moorings at 9 o'clock and...

Penlee, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 9th March, 1966, a telephone message was received that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to meet the British ship Silver Comet, as there was an injured man on board who needed hospital attention. At...

SICK MAN LANDED At 11.40 a.m. on 2ist May, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message that there was a sick man on board the Coningbeg light-vessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched on the ebbing tide at 11.55. There was...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 11.45 p.m. on 30th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board was overdue from South Uist. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 12.25...

Torbay: On September 22, 1983, a young man fell 60ft into the sea when rocks crumbled beneath his feet on cliffs at Babbacombe. Two friends pulled the injured man from the sea, raised the alarm and then returned with blankets. Torbay's...

SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...

Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.45 a.m. on lyth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that cries for help had been heard near Ringstead beach, four miles east of Weymouth. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke went out at 3 o'clock on an ebbing tide...

Freedom of Swansea The officers, committee and crew of The Mumbles lifeboat station were honoured with the Freedom of the City of Swansea on April 23, 1987, when the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Mrs Lilian Hopkin, presented the freedom...