LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The...

A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution,...

THE Fastnet race—famous among yachtsmen the world over for its tough course of over 600 miles from Cowes to round the Fastnet rock off the south-west of Ireland—is contested only by strong and experienced crews. This year there were nearly...

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DECEMBER 22ND. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. The life-boat was called out by the naval authorities to search a given area, but all that she found were two floats about four feet long and these she left alone in case they were explosives. - Rewards,...

Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -

COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...

THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...

Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.

Within one...