LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Parachutist saved - with dry feetj Clacton lifeboatmen were involved in a most unusual service on 27 June, when they rescued a young woman parachutist while she was still airborne! The station's Atlantic 21 was called out when a...

WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.

Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...

The Motor Life- boat, H. F. Bailey, put out at 11.5 A.M.

on the llth October, in hazy weather with a smooth sea and moderate S.W.

breeze, as the Haisborough Light-vessel had reported a vessel aground op....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 7.25 on the evening of the24th of August, 1953, the Nells Point coastguard rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had been damaged in a storm and was...

Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...

THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...