LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The yacht Mea, of Hoylake, a cutter of about four tons, left Beaumaris at about 10 A.M.

on the 24th August, but owing to dark- ness was unable to make Hoylake.

Having no lights the two occupants cruised...

On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...

RNLI supporters in the UK can now stay connected with lifeboat launches on their mobile phones.

Choose your favourite stations and receive an SMS message once the lifeboat has launched on emergency...

INVEST IN A 'KING FALCON' CRUISER—OSBORNE OBVIOUSLY Order Direct—Designer—Builder—Moulder and save more than V.A.T.—No Agency Discounts Our Own Engineering & Electrical Installations —No Sub Contractors— 33ft.—Twin Diesels Sleep...

THE first of the life-boat broadcasts in 1952 was in Children's Hour, on the 25th of January. It was in a series called " I'm Proud of My Father,' and the narrator was Miss May New- lands, daughter of Coxswain Duncan...

Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.

on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...

Walmer, Kent—On the night of the 31st of March, 1949, the S.S. Selskar, of Newcastle, and the S.S. Nordic, of Stockholm, were in collision near the South Falls Buoy, and the Ramsgate life-boat was launched, but her services were not needed...