LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 17TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. Flashing lights had been seen at irregular intervals, but no sign of any vessel in need of help was found, although the coxswain took the life-boat in right under the cliffs, and among the sea defences,...

ABERSOCH.—On the11th November, at about 3 P.M., the schooner Jane and Ellen, Nefyn, which had parted from her anchors, was observed to show a signal of distress, having struck on a bank at the mouth of the river Soch, during a heavy gale...

HOLY ISLAND.—At 9.30 P.M. on the 13th October, signals of distress were seen on Goswick Sands. The Grace Den-ling Life-boat was launched, and found the Preston, a large screw steamer, of West Hartlepool, ashore there. At the master's...

At 4 A.M. on the 11th April, during a strong wind from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea, the British Workman Lifeboat was launched to the aid of the brig Betty of Tonsberg, Norway, which had grounded on the Hasborough Bank, and had floated off in...

RUNSWICK.—At 5.30 P.M. on the 29th October three fishing cobles belonging to Staithes, which were unable to land there owing to the heavy sea, arrived at Runswick, and their crews reported that three other cobles were following them, and...

Workington, Cumberland.—When the S.S. Baron Yarborough, of Ardrossan, was ready for sailing on the 19th of November, 1952, her wireless operator was missing. The steamer put out, but anchored off the port. When the operator arrived the...

'Who said Braintree did not need a lifeboat?' writes 15- year-old A. Taylor who took this photograph at Braintree's fun day on May 15. The D class inflatable lifeboat, he said, was really only there for display! Despite a partly... - View image in PDF

Life-boatmen took part in the meetings, on 2oth and 2ist February, celebrating the 25th birthday of the Red Army. Life-boatmen from Margate and Southend-on-Sea were at the chief celebration in the Albert Hall, London; men from Newhaven and-...