LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(above) A welcome for the new Mersey from station president Admiral Sir Charles Mills. - View image in PDF

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, rescued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on the...

ON the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while Scarborough fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.40 the Scarborough life-boat E.C.J.R., a 35-feet 6-inches selfrighting boat, was launched to escort them...

Reproduction of a Painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.

As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th of November,1959, the weather grew rapidly worse, and at 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched as there were several local fishing cobles at sea.

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Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...

Dover, Kent. At 6.11 on the morn- ing of the 30th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster was aground in St. Margaret's Bay. The honorary secretary asked for further information, and at seven o'...

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