LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Only flare fired A RED FLARE fired from a position about 7 nautical miles south east of Berry Head was reported to Torbay honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 0609 on Wednesday, March 12. The 52' Barnett lifeboat Princess Alexandra of...

IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...

Mrs Violet Roast, chairman of Sharbrook ladies' guild for over 25 years..

Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...

FEBRUARY 3RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At 1.41 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Norwegian steamer Belpariel, of Oslo, was in need ofhelp. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Visibility...

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In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...

At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...