LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the nick of time...

A small fishing boat had a narrow squeak on 11 August when she got into difficulties, driving her perilously close to rocks off Buckie. Scotland.

Luckily, when they received the call...

Careful! You’re holding something very valuable in your hands. It’s something you helped to make.

Thanks to the many letters and emails that readers send me, I have a pretty good idea of what you think is important about...

COXSWAIN THACKSTON CRAFTS, a boat- man of Southsea, was coxswain of the Southsea life-boat from 1893, seven vears after the station was opened, until it was closed in 1918, when he retired, being awarded a coxswain's certificate of...

Walmer, Kent. At 10.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Channel Rover of Dover was drifting towards Deal with her engines out of order. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...

ON 10th February last, the Angle, Milford Haven, Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the fishing smack Arrowvale, of Milford. The owners, Messrs.

Peter Hancock & Sons, have sent the Institution £2 2s., in...

PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still...

On the morning of the 3rd December, the life-boat at this place put off, and rendered assistance to the brig Wild £ose, of Brixham, which was observed to be in a dismantled state off Cromer during stormy weather. When the life-boat...