LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 28TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

The Norwegian steamer Faro, of Oslo, had gone ashore in Tarncliff Bay.

Deerness, but the crew of seven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus...

IN the old church of Prestwich, Lanca- shire, Sir EDWARD TOOTALBROADHURST, Bt., D.L., J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Branch, was laid to rest on the 6th February last, and a crowded congregation testi- fied to the...

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On the morning of the 17th January, between 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., the fishing fleet of Gourdon put to sea. At 8 A.M.

there were signs of an approaching gale, and some of the smaller boats returned to harbour. By noon a...

TWENTY-NINE HOURS AT SEA Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.25 a.m.

on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the coaster Normanby Hall had asked for assistance as she was aground off South Rock. The life-boat Constance...

Humber, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a small dinghy with four people on board was in difficulties at the mouth of the...

IT is NOW MORE than four years since the series of official RNLI commemorative covers was started. These colourful philatelic souvenirs of events in the life of the Institution were first issued in 1974 during the 150th anniversary year,...

Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...