LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 7.50 p.m. on nth September, 1966, a red flare was sighted in the Worthing ferry area. The dredger Seastone, which had just left the harbour, also sighted the flare. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...

In response to signals, the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched at midnight on the 25th April, during a strong N.E. wind and a rough sea, and proceeded under double-reefed sails to the Swin Middle Light-vessel, where the crew were informed...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1953, word was received by the coxswain that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The local fishing boat Lead Us was still at sea, and at 2.40 the No. 1 life-boat...

Torbay, Devon.—At 6.55 P.M. on the 16th January, 1939, it was reported that the open motor fishing boat Prince, of Torquay, with three men on board,was overdue on a trip from Torquay to Brixham, and that owing to the poor condition of her...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel James Wickham, which was taking a party to the U.S.S. Rhodes, had broken down and was flying...

Missing divers found It was a family affair at Lyme Regis earlier this year when a lifeboat crew member's father and brother were instrumental in saving the lives of two divers.

On the afternoon of 9 May, three skin...

At about 7.30 A.M., on the 7th October, the Life-boat Coxswain, who was on the look-out, observed a yacht near the Middle Patch buoy, about four miles distant, showing signals of distress. He immediately summoned his crew, and the Life- boat...

BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...