LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARGATE.—About 4.40 p.m., on the 21st March, a telegram was received from Lloyd's agent at Whitstable stating that a brigantine had stranded on the Red Sand and that her crew were apparently in jeopardy. A strong gale was blowing from...

INJURED BOY RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the llth March, 1962, the coxswain received a message from the Abersoch fire brigade that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Cilan Head, and that...

Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats The dangers facing lifeboat crews were cgraphically illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after...

When a swimmer drew close to a pier at a Dorset beach, lifeguards moved quickly to warn him of the dangers – but they soon found he needed more than advice

The waters off Boscombe beach looked deceptively calm on 5 May....

Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...

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At about 11 P.M. on the 13th September, lights being observed through the darkness, carried by some ship evidently drifting on the rocks, the Life-boat was launched, and on reaching the distressed vessel found that she was already ashore.<...