LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The most distressing calamities in connection with this disastrous storm of the 10th. Febru- ary happened at this place. It was a storm which raged on some portions of the east coast with a severity unequalled within the memory of...

ON another page we record one of the most fearful catastrophes that has ever happened on the seas. The burning of the emigrant ship Austria, with 528 persons on board, of whom no less than 471 were drowned, suffocated, or burned to death.<...

Fahnouth, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the morning of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were seen off Greek Point. There was a strong south- south-west wind blowing, and the sea was rough. At...

APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.

APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...

Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.45 a.m. on lyth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that cries for help had been heard near Ringstead beach, four miles east of Weymouth. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke went out at 3 o'clock on an ebbing tide...

MARCH Launches 43 Lives rescued 45 MARCH 2ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

The Admiralty tug Seaman put out from Montrose with a battle target in tow and the life-boat coxswain on board as pilot. A strong northerly wind was blowing,...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.

At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...

Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...