LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...

Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...

The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF

Speedboat on Pye Sands • It was with very great interest that I read of the gallantry awards to members of the crew of Edian Courtauld for their successful rescue of a speedboat's complement on August 15, 1973 ('Lifeboat Services'...

Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...

THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.

On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...

I thought this photograph may be of interest to readers of The Lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

IN the statement of the income and expenditure of the Institution for the year ending 31st March, 1854, it will be seen that £1,831 has been expended on life-boats, and on objects immed- iately connected with them; and £182 on...