LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

REDCAR, YORKSHIRE. At 6.30 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1946, Saltburn coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that a motor vessel was reported ashore on the Salt Scar rocks.

A light...

TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light...

Bronze for selfless braveryOn the same day as the Redcar incident (see page 12] volunteers at Filey too were called upon to save lives.

Particular tidal and weather conditions combined with the local geology to create...

At 7.20 A.M., on the 23rd September, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a strong W.N.W. wind and a heavy sea to a schooner riding at the entrance to the Cockle Gat. The Boat sailed to the Gat, and was then taken in tow by the steamtug...

RESCUE FROM ROCKS At 8.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local life-saving apparatus team was on its way to the Little Orme because two young men were stranded. At 8.30 the life-boat The Lilly...

At the end of January, 1940, a letter from Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, was published in "The Times" calling attention to the work of the life-boat service during the first fire months of war. The letter...

MR. JOHN BOYD-CARPENTER, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year to be held jointly by the rocket coast life saving companies of Sea Palling and Winterton. Norfolk.

EIGHT SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM TRAWLER Caister, Norfolk. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 8th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had sighted red flares north-east of Caister. The motor...