LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched at 3 P.M.

on the 2nd December, and rescued the crew of four hands of the fishing-boat JehoiaJi Wick, of Hoylake, which was in distress...

LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer...

SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...

Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the evening of the 11th of September, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken down off the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 6.4 in...

Dr Denis Leslie, chairman of Penlee and Penzance branch from 1974 to 1983 when he was elected vice-president. Dr Leslie also served as Penlee station's honorary medical adviser from 1956 to 1973. In 1972 he was awarded the RNLI's...

A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...

IN 1909, one of the first of the Insti- tution's Motor Life-boats was stationed at Fishguard. She was a 40-feet Self- righting Life-boat with a 24 h.p. auxiliary engine, giving her a speed of seven knots.

There were...

ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...