LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her cable and try fresh anchorage off...

A vessel's light having been observed in a dangerous position near the breakers in the S.E. part of the bay near PenrhynPoint during a whole gale from the N.W.

and a very heavy sea on the morning of the 26th January,...

Torbay, Devonshire.—On the 27th October, 1939, it was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F. aeroplane, en- gaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten miles north-east...

Thanks, but no thanks for Barry Dock! Barry Dock lifeboat crew were faced with an unusual situation on 12 September this year, when one of two survivors they had located refused the offer of a lift to safety on the lifeboat! Within 10...

Mick Elstub (I) and Charlie Martin (r), raised £500 for Flamborough lifeboat station by cycling from Doncaster to Flamborough, a distance of about 65 miles. While at the station Mick and Charlie met up with another fund raiser,... - View image in PDF

THE Thirty-second Annual Meeting of this philanthropic Institution, which is supported entirely by voluntary contributions to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 26th May last at the Mansion House, the Right...

FEBRUARY 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A steamer had been mined ten miles N.E. of Trevose Head, and the Padstow life-boat put out in the early morning to search. Other vessels helped, but nothing was found except a barrage balloon...

SOUTHEND, ESSEX. — Signals having been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the night of the 19th January, the Lifeboat Theodore and Herbert was launched at 11 o'clock in a rough sea and a strong S.S.W. breeze, which afterwards increased to...