LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 27TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

An airman had been reported dropped in the sea with his parachute, but the call was cancelled before the life-boat had been launched. Then a second message reportedan aeroplane believed...

NOVEMBER 9TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. The Dutch motor vessel Prinses Irene, of Groningen, had gone ashore at Point of Ayre, but the weather moderated, and the life-boat was not needed. The vessel got off later. - Rewards, £12...

DECEMBER 22ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 4.45 in the morning the Bangor coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme. A squally north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The...

OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...

Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...

The Institution has made rewards to seven people who went out in two fishing boats from North Berwick to the help of an aeroplane. In one boat was the owner, his wife, a policeman and a chemist's apprentice; in the other a fisherman, a...

Since the war ended the Institution has been in touch with several of the foreign life-boat services. In September 1944, as soon as France was liberated, it heard from the French service which reported that it had suffered great...

22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...