LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Poole, Dorset. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Chloe had left Wareham for Sandbanks at 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August and had not arrived....

The Coxswain of the Life-boat Alexandra was called by the Coastguard at 6 A.M. on the 23rd March, a steamer having stranded on the "Book" rock. The boat was launched at once and found that the vessel was the oil-tank steamer...

Rescuers rescued Dun Laoghaire's D class inflatable was involved in a service at the very limits for the class of lifeboat when she went to the aid of a capsized safety boat on 26 May 1993.

The inflatable had been on...

The fishing-boat Affiance, of St. Ives, whilst bound for the fishing-grounds oil the 28th July, stranded on the Fame Islands, the weather being line and the sea smooth at the time. In response to her signals of distress, the Life-boat Thomas...

TRAMORE | 16 NOVEMBER
Volunteers from Tramore RNLI went to the rescue of a bull stranded on a rocky ledge after it fell from a clifftop into the sea. With the animal secured by rope, and a...

FIRST SERVICE CALL TO NEW IRISH LIFEBOAT Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, a report was received that spectators at the Howth sailing club regatta had seen a yacht in distress. There was a strong ebb tide...

Runswick, Yorkshire.—On the 14th August, as the motor life-boat Robert Potion—The Always Ready was being launched for the annual regatta, news was received from the coastguard that a ship was ashore at Kelder Steel.

The...

Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution...