LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 9 p.m. on 25th May, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted six to eight miles south south west of Shoreham. At 9.7 the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...

On the 19th of Feb- ruary the barque Niagara, of Troon, was driven ashore in a heavy N.W. gale, 3 miles north of Ayr harbour: the life-boat quickly proceeded thence to her aid, and first landed the master, who had been disabled and was in...

RAMSGATE. — At 9 P.M. on the 31st January, when blowing hard from the S.W., in answer to signals of distress from the Gull Lightship, the steam-tug Aid, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, proceeded to the dismasted barque Dorothea, of...

AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...

ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...

YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...

LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...