LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dfracombe, Devon.—-At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull Point Lighthouse that a vessel appeared to be ashore at Morte Point but that she had made no distress signals. At...

BOULMER.—The Life-boat Eobin Hood of Nottingham was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the iSth February, and remained outside the harbour until several fishing cobles safely entered, they having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.E.,...

JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light...

THE summer is now over, and the collecting season of the Life - boat Saturday Fund for the current year is therefore practically at an end.

Much has been attempted by the thousands of workers in England, Scotland, and...

During a whole W. by S. gale on the night of the 28th-29th December the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to the assistance of a vessel which was in difficulties near the Middle Shoebury Buoy. The Life-boat found the tug Woodcock,...

Shortly before 10 P.M. on the 9th January the Norwegian steamer Zeus, bound from Havre to Burntisland in ballast,stranded about half a mile to the south of Flam- borough Head. Information of the casualty was telephoned to the cox- swain of...

ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, information was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...

The launching of an appeal for funds for a prototype 47ft fast slipway lifeboat to be named City of London was held at Fishmongers' Hall by the River Thames on the evening of November 25, 1980. Welcoming the guests, Lord Inchcape,...