LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...

ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...

SCARBOROUGH.—On the evening of the 14th June a schooner bound for Searborough was sighted about five miles off.

Two pilot boats went off to her, and whilst they were out the sea, which was very strong, increased...

On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E. at the time. The...

Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...

LYTHAM, LANCASHIEE.—The Life-boat Charles Biggs, was launched at 7.15 A.M.

on the 31st of May, to the assistance of the schooner Isabella, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth for Preston with a cargo of china clay, which had...

Summer is almost here, and RNLI lifeguards on 150 beaches in England and Wales are getting ready for the crowds that will flock to the seaside in the glorious weather (here’s hoping!).

This year, the RNLI will provide...

ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW OF PILOT LAUNCH Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 5th August.

1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was showing flares near the East One...