LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DRIVEWAYS THAT CREATE A LASTING IMPRESSION Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, of traditional styles, including Cobble, Slate and Stone, plus its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique...

'... in every way magnificent’

I was rescued by Lymington lifeboat crew on 15 July after my finger was severed. They arrived in only 7 minutes and were in every way magnificent. I lost my...

OCT. 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

Information had been received through the coastguard from the senior naval officer atNewcastle that there had been a collision off Marske, one of the vessels being H.M. Destroyer Javelin. The...

NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...

Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...

MONTROSE.—The fishing-boat Useful, of Kirkcaldy, while going out of the harbour on the afternoon of the 27th July in a moderate 8.E. wind and a rough sea, went ashore on the Annat Bank. The seas were breaking heavily on the sand and the...

On the night of the 27th March the care- taker of the Board of Trade's Rocket Apparatus reported that a vessel in the Gold Top Roads was signalling for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat William Roberts were promptly assembled and the...

HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—About midnight on the 24th March IT. M.S. Opossum, while lying in the harbour at Holyhead, dragged her anchor and collided with the schooner Gipsy Maid. As she fired a rocket and showed signals of distress, the steam Life...