LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 20th February, while a strong breeze was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea, the pilots observed a schooner strike on the Causeway rocks.

The crew of the Life-boat...

At 7.20 A.M., on the 23rd September, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a strong W.N.W. wind and a heavy sea to a schooner riding at the entrance to the Cockle Gat. The Boat sailed to the Gat, and was then taken in tow by the steamtug...

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The first life-boat day to be held in oae af the Dominions for the British beat Service was held ia Capetown on February 4th. It raised £1506. This day vas of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price has beea making throughout the Union of...

Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.20 On the night of the 1st of March, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that he had seen a distress signal near the mouth of the River Ythan. The Belhelvie coastguard was immediately contacted but...

In the summer 2002 issue of the Lifeboat magazine, we included a write-up of the rescue of a sea angler who was swept into stormy seas on 2 February 2002 at Porthcawl in Wales.

To make the rescue, Helmsman Nicholas Beale...

Dungeness, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three skin divers were missing in the Varne bank area about eight miles east of Dungeness.

The life-boat Mabel E....

THE following coxswains and members of lifeboat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...