LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was being heavily pounded by a rough sea while at anchor off Hardfast Point. Because of the state of the weather...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.

At 1.35 on 29th May, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported in difficulties off Towyn beach. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at two...

For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Cannibal, which had broken down,was drifting with the strong flood tide and would very soon be ashore...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.9 p.m. on 9th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an injured man aboard the motor fishing vessel Susitna needed medical assistance urgently. At 9.30 the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth,...

Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 5.35 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran was almost on the rocks at Deadman's Cove. The life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched...

ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink....

On the 10th Jan. the steam-tug Slasher, of Liver- pool, while on her way to that port with the ship Bolton Abbey in tow, fell in, about daybreak, with the schooner Van- guard, of Carnarvon, which had been in collision with a foreign barque,...