LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT, HELICOPTER AND MOTOR BOATS GO TO YACHT Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he could see a sailing dinghy aground in Portmadoc estuary, and...

A naval architect and an accident and emergency doctor from Southampton are just two of the many RNLI supporters who ran the Virgin London Marathon in April.

Nick Burton and Mairi Reynolds, who will marry in July, ran the...

Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...

ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...

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on 23rd February information was re- ceived from the Coastguard that the North Goodwin Lightship had reported that a flare or rocket had been seen in a south-westerly direction. The Motor Life-boat...

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—The fishing coble Star of Bethlehem, of Scarborough, was seen some distance off the bay, on the morning of the 30th April, and, as the heavy sea then running'would render -it very dangerous for her to...

The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...

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