LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

.—Six of the cobles belonging to Staithes were en- dangered on the 22nd January when off Saltburn by a sudden gale, and at about 10 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched. She re- mained afloat for about three...

THERE is a time-honoured saying that " it is a long lane that has no turning," and the old saw may not inappropriately be applied at the present time to the Life-boat Saturday Fund. For the last three years the Life-boat Saturday...

Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...

YACHTSMEN RESCUED AFTER SEARCH IN ROUGH SEA Wicklow. On the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, it was decided to make a search for the motor yacht Widgeon, which had been reported missing while bound for Wicklow from Howth with a crew of two,...

I AM sitting right, opposite to it. The dark red doors of the stone, chapel-like j little building are wide open. The sun is shining, and the sea is calui. Over the doors in large white letters on a blue background is written "...

The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.

Although he...

I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...

In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?

Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...