LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 5.14 p.m. on 29th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in difficulties one and a half miles from the Tyne and half a mile off Marsden. The life-boat...

HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—Very heavy '.

seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...

Eastbourne.

AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...

Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER FEBRUARY 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. During the evening there was bitter winter weather on the Humber. A strong north-north-east wind was blowing on shore, with squalls at gale force. Snow was falling...

Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...

Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 5.55 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948. a Skinningrove fisherman telephoned that a fishing coble had anchored off Skinningrove with her engine broken down and the motor life-boat Bobert Patton — The Always...

DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.

HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...