LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 12.15 P.M. the coastguard at Fairlight reported that two small fishing boats were missing. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, but the weather was getting worse, and at 12.30 P.M. the...

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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—28th February, 1939. A steamer was reported to be aground, but she was found to be at anchor close to the Scroby Sands.—-Rewards, £21 6s..

FEB. 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A steamer was reported to be aground, but she was found tobe at anchor close to the Scroby Sands.

Rewards, £21 6s..

AUGUST 2 6TH. - MARGATE, KENT Intense machine-gun fire had been heard, an aeroplane on fire was seen falling into the sea, and an airman, and then three more airmen, were seen coming down by parachute, but they were picked up by other boats....

THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.

Since 1924 there has been a great im-...

Getting 15 tonnes of lifeboat across a beach is an age-old task …

Lifeboat launch and recovery is a vital link in the lifesaving chain and the stations that cannot use afloat moorings, slipways...

THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...