LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DR. E. J. GORDON WALLACE, who is chairman of the Weymouth life-boat station branch, and also its honorary medical adviser, has been accorded the R.N.L.I.'s thanks on vellum for gallantry when helping to take a sick woman off a Soviet...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 23rd of November.

1956, the Deal coastguard reported that an aircraft of the United States Air Force had crashed into the sea near the Cork lightvessel and asked for...

Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...

Aberdeen's D class inshore lifeboat Trevor Edwin Jones makes her way cautiously through the flooded caravan park. Thirteen people and six animals were rescued. Photo Aberdeen Evening Express. - View image in PDF

Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The steam trawler Teal, of London, returning to Lowestoft from the fishing grounds, in thick weather, on the night of the 17th January, stranded about a mile N. of Winterton. At about 1 A.M. she was seen by the look-out...

During a very light N.N.W. breeze, on the 10th February, the coble Robert and Mary, belonging to Whitby, came from Runs- wick to work her crab-pots at the back of Whitby rock. There was a heavy sea on the Bar and a very strong outset; the...