LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JERSEY CENTEMRY Six famous rescues are immortalised by Jersey Artist Gerald Palmer in this dramatic set of stamps commemorating the R.N.L.I. Jersey Lifeboat Station Centenary.

ISSUE DATE 1st JUNE 1984 The Jersey Post Office...

SEPTEMBER 14TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 5.55 in the evening a message was received from a call-box at Westcliff that men could be seen clinging to the mast of a yacht which had sunk, close to the Loway Buoy. A strong squally...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.

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Filey, Yorkshire.—As darkness was gathering on the evening of the 26th of September, 1949, there was some anxiety felt for the safety of the fishing coble Mary which, with a crew of three, had been due in at noon. At 7.25 the life-boat The...

GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—During a gale at W.S.W. on the 14th March, the brig Linwood, of Marjport, came to an anchor off , White Head in a dangerous position. At j ; 2 P.M. she parted her cables, and about the same time hoisted signals of...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the night of the 8th October, 1938,the City of Bradford I, doing temporary duty at Holyhead, went out in a gale to the steamer Kyle Prince, of Liverpool, and rescued her crew of nine.—Rewards, The thanks of the...

LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat was launched at 9 P.M. on the 3rd November, signals of distress having been shown by the barquentine Scotia, of Ayr, bound from Aruba for London, withphosphate rock, which had stranded off No. 1 Battery,...

The Flora London Marathon on 26 April was a great success, and the RNLI hopes to raise over £350,000 from the event.

Thirteen lifeboat crew members ran for the RNLI, from Tower, Girvan, Chiswick, Skegness, Bembridge,...