LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...

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SEPTEMBER 6TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.41 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small pulling boat was in difficulties 2 1/2 miles S.E. from Berwick Pier, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at...

APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred yards off Butlin’s Camp. A moderately strong N.W....

Miss E. M. Lloyd-Jones, whose home is in Auchterarder, Perthshire, has been appointed as the Institution's organising secretary for Scotland. She succeeds Mrs. Jan D. Paton, who has retired after thirteen years of distinguished service...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 230, 238 and 244, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Abersoch,...

THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...

Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 7.10 in the morning of the 9th of .January, 1952, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress fifteen miles south-south-west of Smalls, but that a steamer was standing by her.

Then...