LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Penlee, Cornwall - At 10.40 p.m. on 17th May, 1969, news was received that a yacht had engine failure five miles east of Runnelstone buoy. At 10.50 the life-boat Thomas McGunn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. It was low water...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...

The schooner Brazilian of South Shields, whilst bound from that port to Stornoway with a cargo of coal, became windbound and lay in Longhope Bay for some days.

A change in the wind enabled her to proceed on her voyage, but...

This photograph, of what was obviously at one time an RNLI station, was taken by me last year at the little port of Solva in Pembrokeshire.

Would any readers know the history of this station? Mr PA Hindley Llanyblodwel... - View image in PDF

Waterlogged dinghy BOUND FOR THE WHELKINO GROUNDS, MFV Isabelle Kathleen cleared her moorings abreast the lifeboat house at Wells at about 1120 on Thursday, June 3,1976, and set out to sea. The 36' fishing boat was commanded by her owner...

Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 6 a.m.

on 3oth November, 1966, information was received that the motor vessel Gathland had an injured man aboard who required medical assistance, and that a doctor had agreed to go to him. The last...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 9.10 on the night of the 6th of December, 1952, the harbour master reported that he had seen flares about four miles east of Clogher Head pier, and at 9.50 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched....