LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...

Wrecked on the Cornish coast, 1st July, 1937, (See opposite page mi cage 374.). - View image in PDF

No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.25 on the night of the 13th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sagona that red flares had been seen east of the West Sunk...

Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...

Michael Phillips (left) and Neil Thomas alongside the Saint David-Dewi Sant. - View image in PDF

and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...

Margaret Mitchell, wife of a Fleet branch committee member, leaves raising money to her cat, Perdita. Instead of selling Perdita's kittens, Mrs Mitchell asks new owners to make a donation to the RNLI.

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