LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...

Lifeboat launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1973 Aith, Shetland July 20.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 11, July 15 and August 15.

Amble, Northumberland July 4, 27 and August...

Angle, Pembrokeshire April 18.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 20.

Arranmore, Co. Donegal Vlay 3.

iarmouth, Merionethshire May 16.

Jarra Island, Outer Hebrides March 22, 24 and...

Main: Supporter Miss Olive Whitehead bequeathed the whole of her residuary estate to the lifeboat service with the request that it be used to fund a lifeboat named in memory of her parents.

The legacy amounted to around... - View image in PDF

West Division January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles...

A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.

Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an Ecuadorian motor...

WITH GREAT REGRET we have to report that the Royal North and South Holland Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Christiaen Huygens of Den Helder capsized on March 26, 1975. Two of her crew of three lost their lives.

At about 2145...

1—Which is the most (a) northerly; (b) easterly; (c) southerly; and (d) westerly station of the RNLI ? 2— Which was the first sailing lifeboat ? 3—Which were (a) the steepest, and (b) the longest slipways for lifeboats ? 4—Where were the...