LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...

BROUGHTY FERRY, N.B.—It was reported, about 5 P.M. on the 4th March, that a schooner had gone ashore on the Lady Bank, and when she could 'be seen through the snow and drift, which was only at intervals, she appeared to be partially...

On 19th November only one fishing boat had put out, the Mary Henderson, with three men on board. A moderate S.E.

breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. As at 1.20p.M. the boat had not returned, and the seas at the...

Flamborough, Yorkshire. —• On the evening of the 21st December, 1937, a steamer was seen ashore on the south side of Flamborough Head. A fresh, southerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, and the night was very dark and foggy. The tide...

Lynmoutb, Devon.—At about 7.30 P.M. on the 13th July, 1939, a motor yacht was seen flying a distress signal.

A squally southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick...

Seventy years after the hospital ship Rohilla was driven ashore off the Yorkshire coast, a party of Whitby townspeople put to sea in Whitby's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, The White Rose of Yorkshire, to lay wreaths above the wreck. The... - View image in PDF

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 130 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 39 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 15th, 1936 64,658 H.M. King Edward VII, Patron of the...

2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...