LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aith, Shetlands. At 8.40 on the evening of the 28th of January, 1958, a doctor at Walls told the honorary secretary that a patient was very seri- ously ill on the island of Foula and hospital treatment was necessary. The island's boat...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 2nd of November, 1954, the coxswain noticed distress rockets at the entrance to the harbour. At nine o'clock the life-boat A.E.D. put out in an ebbing tide. The sea was rough and a fresh...

BOY AND YACHT IN DOUBLE RESCUE Lowestoft, Suffolk. The honorary secretary received a report from the coastguard during the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, that a boy was drowning off Pakefield beach. The lifeboat Frederick Edward...

ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...

SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...

Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.

In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...

Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.

and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.

The Little Ship...