LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Torbay
TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
World Cup Travels In Style
The Webb Ellis Cup, England's trophy for winning the Rugby World Cup in 2003, was recently seen on the south coast as part of a four-month nationwide tour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Taste of France
Can-can girls were popular entertainers at a French Connection evening, staged by the Middelsex forum at the end of November - raising nearly £3,000 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (44)
APRIL 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 5.34 P.M. the Margate coastguard telephoned that an unidentified aeroplane had made a forced landing on Margate Sands some three miles from the shore, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...
An Aeroplane (162)
OCTOBER 24TH. - PORTHDINLLAES, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the crew were rescued by an Air Sea Rescue launch, which also towed the aeroplane to port. - Rewards, £11 8s..
Campbeltown
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 19th January, 1942, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued forty-four of the crew of the motor vessel Mobeka, of Antwerp.
COXSWAIN JAMES THOMSON was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
Eve
AUGUST 25TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 9.42 at night the coastguard reported a message from the Eastbourne Angling Club that one of their boats, the motor boat E v e , was overdue and that another motor boat had been out,...
Lenora Venture, of London
OCTOBER 23TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.31 at night the coastguard reported that a vessel was flashing SOS signals from the Goodwin Sands four miles north of the lifeboat station. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing. The sea was rough. The...
Six Months of Peace
In the last six months of war the Life-boat Service rescued 527 lives.
In the first six months of peace it has rescued 295 lives..
Category: Articles
William, of Tonsberg
On the 27th of December, the Norwegian bark, William, of Tonsberg, ran ashore in thick and squally weather, near Camber, about three miles on the north side of Eye Harbour. The life-boat at No. 31 Tower, on the .opposite side of the harbour,...