LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Breaking up SOLENT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 2051 on Wednesday October 5, 1983, that red flares had been sighted close inshore off Selsey Bill and requested that the 15ft 6in D class inflatable...

AGM (IN POOLE, DUBLIN, LONDON OR PERTH) Would you like to come along to the RNLI Annual General Meeting? This year, as reported in previous editions of the magazine, it’s in a new venue. Our AGM has been held at the Barbican in London for...

At 2 A.M. on the 17th March signals for assistance were seen from a schooner at anchor in the bay. A strong N.N.W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a moderate sea, and without loss of time the Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was...

The Coastguard on duty on Wembury Cliffs soon after dark on the 29th August saw a small light on the " Mewstone," and thinking that a boat might be in difficulties, reported the matter to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Michael Smart...

FISHGUABD, SOOTH WALES.—At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 31st of October, signals of distress were shown by two schooners which, with other ves sels, had taken refuge in the bay on the previous day, being unable to go round St....

PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...

The Surf lifeboat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 stationed at We/Is 1936 to 1945.. - View image in PDF

ON 20th August the Runswick motor life-boat, Robert Patton—The Always Ready, rescued a man whose yacht was in distress in Runswick Bay. The account of that service appears on page 364. Here is another account of the same service—by the man...