LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APPENDICITIS PATIENT At 1.50 p.m. on I4th October, 1963, a doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis who required hospital attention. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 2.30 in a...

Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.

—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...

FEBRUARY 16TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.

A steamer had been torpedoed, and one of her boats with fifteen survivors in it was reported drifting two miles north of Loophead.

The life-boat could not find them, and...

Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.

D class...

Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.

D class...

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to bo the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...

Lobster boat sunk THE LIGHTKEEPERS on Tory Island sent a message to the honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station at 2015 on Saturday, September 17, reporting that a half-decker lobster fishing boat had gone on the rocks. The crew of...

A report in the spring 1985 issue of the journal about ex-mayors and mayoresses partaking in collecting on lifeboat day in St Albans some 50 years ago gave rise to the committee of this branch deciding to revive the custom. Letters were sent... - View image in PDF