LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Miss Ellen Goodeve, who was probably the oldest active supporter of the life-boat service, died at the Queen Mary Homes in Chislehurst, Kent, in August, 1962, at the age of 103. To within a few months of her death Miss Goodeve was regularly...

Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.

Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1956, a wire- less distress message was received at the St. Peter Port signal station from the M.V. Conlea, of London, which...

Humber's Arun class lifeboat lies afloat off the tip of Spurn Point, the most southerly fragment of Yorkshire, where the Number joins the turbulent North Sea.

It is the only station with a full-time crew - the members... - View image in PDF

On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat W.R.A. was launched. The sea was rough, with a whole...

John Roberts, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboatlifeboat from 1948 until his retirement in 1959. He joined the crew in 1910 on the pulling and sailing lifeboat Ann Newhon. becoming second coxswain in 1944..

JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...