LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sand Runner
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 7.40 in the morning on the 31st of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had been reported aground at Porth- meaor beach. At 8.3 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched, in a slight...
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
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Category: Advertisement
(Left) E Mangold (R) Was Presented With a Plaque Earlier This Year By George Powell Organising Secretary North London Mr Mangold Who Is In His Mid 70S Has Raised £9
(Left) E. Mangold (r.) was presented with a plaque earlier this year by George Powell, organising secretary North London. Mr Mangold, who is in his mid 70s, has raised £925 for the RNLI since he first collected for Wood Green Branch in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer
By the death of Mr. F. H. Barclay, of Cromer, on 28th January, at the age of sixty-five, the Institution has lost one of its most trusted and valued honorary secretaries. As the honorary secretary at Cromer, Mr. Barclay was in charge of one...
Category: Obituaries
Family rescued
28 April: Anstruther, Fife A family were rescued from a chainwalk after they became cut off by the tide. Anstruther RNLI inshore lifeboat brought the family onboard and transferred them to the safety of the...
Category: Articles
Mike and Pat
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 8.30 a.m. on 4th December, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down about 16 miles south south east of the Lizard and had been calling for assistance since the early...
Heckler of Cullen
The boat was also out doing goodwork on the 25th of the same month.
At midnight, lighted torches having been observed from some vessel in the bay during a fearful gale from N.N.W., with snow showers, the...
Kite-surfers
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...
Maid of Erin
On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...