LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.

At 12.45 next...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 29th of January, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves oj Sheffield was launched to the help of the motor boat Sceptre, which was in difficulties in worsening weather con- ditions one mile...

Walmer, Kent.—At 12.26 early on the morning of the 4th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen close inshore north of Deal. At 1.18 the life-boat Thomas lUarkby, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Cromer, Norfolk.—About 6.30 in the evening of the 20th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Bosphorus, of Oslo, of 2,111 tons, bound for Hull from Palestine, with a cargo of oranges and thirty-seven on board,...

Below: (left) The boathouse provides plenty of room for all three of the station's lifeboats and (right) all the necessary launching equipment. - View image in PDF

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford - At 9 p.m. on 13th July, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed thata yacht with two men on board was aground on the rocks at the foot of the cliff outside Dunmore harbour.

The life-boat H. F...

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On October nth., 1941, the total number of lives rescued by life-boats since the beginning of the war was 4131. That is the exact number which they rescued in the whole of the last war, from 4th. August 1914 to nth. November 19i8. In no...