LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 11TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.

Two women and a child were marooned on rocks between Tresaith and Penbryn Sands by the tide, but they decided to remain until the tide went out, and the life-boat was recalled. -...

LONG SERVICE FOR D CLASS IN HEAVY SURF Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surf The Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on...

Under-14 teams of Wold Junior Football League, East Yorkshire, have been competing this winter for the first time for a new football trophy for annual competition donated by the Lifeboat Crew's (Bridlington) Social Club. Fred Walkington,... - View image in PDF

At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a paper was read by Mr. 0. HARDING, P. E. Met. Soc., on "The Gale of October 15-16th, 1886, over the British Islands," in which he remarked that the storm was of very...

Engine failure A MESSAGE came from Warden Point Coastguard to Sheerness honorary secretary at 0752 on Monday, May 26, to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down near the outfall buoy and groynes half a mile east of Garrison Point. The...

AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 21st day of March, 1891. The Most Honourable the MARQUIS of HAR- TINGTON, M.P., in the Chair, the following...

around and about the RNLI Lionel 'steps in' and saves the day… Lionel Blair, showbiz personality and dancer, stepped in to draw the lifeboat lottery at RNLI Open Days at 1200 on Saturday 2 August. Comedian, Jim Davidson, who was...