LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 6TH and 9TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 8.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been fired by a vessel three miles north-west of St.

Agnes Head, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and...

FEBRUARY 5TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.20 on the night of the 4th February, the coast watcher at Brownstown Head reported that a steam trawler was aground on a sandbank on the east side of Tramore Bay, and was showing flares. The...

"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...

RNLI lifeguards were busy throughout Summer 2010 and, for those in north Cornwall, the most challenging day came right at the end of the season

Fine weather attracted thousands of Bank Holiday...

MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.

It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...

Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. . gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth Life-boat | Anne Frances...

IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.

This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...

A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...