LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.

At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...

BOYS HAULED UP CLIFF BY COASTGUARD St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Pen Cwm Bach. Further...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At two o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, 1956, a message was re- ceived that the steam trawler Deeside, of Milford Haven, was sending out SOS messages on her wireless ten miles...

Bridlington: The Lords Feoffees of the Manor of Bridlington receive rents and monies similar to the old feudal system. They then use the money to support local charitable causes. Bridlington's new D class inflatable lifeboat, handed over... - View image in PDF

25 November: When Broughty Ferry lifeboat was unable to locate a jet-skier who had called for help just after lunchtime, a major search and rescue operation was mounted, involving an RAF rescue helicopter and...

AT twenty minutes past eleven on the night of the 27th of September, 1951— a very dark night with heavy rain squalls—the coxswain of the Dover life-boat, when on his way along the Eastern Harbour Arm, on private busi- ness to the signal...

THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...