LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...

FLUSHING, CORNWALL Comfortably furnished quayside holiday cottage, sleeping six in three bedrooms, situated in the centre of this quiet village on beautiful Falmouth harbour. Views across the water to Greenbank and the Royal Cornwall VC.<...

MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...

Poole, Dorset.—At nine o'clock on the evening of the 30th of November, 1957, a message was received that the motor vessel Dollard, of Rotterdam, was ashore on Hook Sands and that the master had asked if the life-boat would stand by when...

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 2.16 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that six people were cut off by the tide on a ledge at Thornwick'bay, one mile north west of the life-boat station. The life-boat...

THE association between the RNLI and Russian anarchists may appear to be an unlikely one. Nevertheless, perhaps the greatest of the Russian anarchists, Prince Peter Kropotkin, was a profound admirer of the life-boat service in this country....

HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...

Trader went aground off Cromer in October 1941. Henry Blogg was then aged 65. His lifeboat H. F. Bailey put out in a full gale blowing from the north-north-east. When he approached English Trader, Blogg was confronted with what he considered...