LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Above: A welcome sight for the Lone yachtsman: Frederick Storey Cockburn coming to the rescue. - View image in PDF

MARCH 13TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.

At 4.17 A.M. the coastguard reported that the naval examination vessel was ashore inside the New South Pier, and needed help.

A strong N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough...

Mrs Rita Rennie, member of the Usk committee from 1977 to 1997. In 1995 she was awarded the Statuette..

More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.

North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...

AUGUST 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 1.15 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that they had learned from the Ballyholme Hotel that a yacht was in distress in Ballyholme Bay. She was the Kingfisher of Bangor,...

FEBRUARY 27TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

Shortly after 5 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel making a distress signal two and a half miles S.S.W. of Orfordness, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy Lavers was launched at 6.30 A...

OCTOBER 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.35 in the morning, the Deal coastguard reported a steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...

Two life-boat stations were temporarily put out of action.

The Tynemouth boat-house, and part of the slipway, were destroyed by the same bomb which destroyed the life-boat. It was six months before the station could be...