LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.

The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...

THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...

50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...

Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...

A useful Life- boat service was performed by the Michael Henry Life-boat on the 10th February.

At 10 A.M. information was received that a steam trawler had stranded on the Harbour Bar, and the Life-boat was launched to her...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of April, 1953, the fishing cobles Betty, Rosemary, and Rachel, of Scarborough, were at sea in bad weather, and the weather was becoming worse. About 7.35 one of them was seen...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Humber lightvessel to Grimsby, as no other boat was available....