LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A telephone message was received on the 2nd May from Dungeness stating that a vessel off Dengemarsh was flying a signal, " Want immediate assistance." The crew and helpers of the Life-boat John William Dudley were assembled with...

The Cromer IRB returning from a service. The crew are Mr. D. Abbs (helmsman) Mr. D. West (port side) and Mr. 6. Morris (starboard side).. - View image in PDF

100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.

Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...

67 saved from stranded factory ship in Storm Force winds Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian was involved in another service to a Russian factory ship on 31 October 1994, another service in very bad weather and involving the evacuation...

JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the Italian steamer Ernani had collided with the Brake Light-vessel, and that the light-vessel was in danger of sinking. At...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1,45 on the morning of the 2nd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that flares had been seen one mile south-west of the Needles fairway buoy. At 2.10, when the life-boat S.G.E.

All that remained of the 19ft Sum Speed after she caught fire on the River Orwell in Suffolk. Both of Harwich's lifeboats were called to the scene and the photograph was taken from the lifeboat by the crew.. - View image in PDF

WILLIE PARR Lifeboatman Willie Parr* sailed into history when a brewery decided to immortalise him.

*The story of Willie Parr appeared in the Manchester edition of the Daily Mirror on December 13,...