LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ABANDONED ON SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 6.27 in the morning of the 29th of July, 1947, the Great Yarmouth coast- guard reported that a sailing yacht appeared to be aground on the Scroby Sands...

FOUR RESCUED BY BREECHES BUOY Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.50 inthe afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1947, the Needles Naval Signal Station reported a motor launch, with the yacht Orion in tow, in need of help, and the motor life-boat...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 17th of March, 1948, information was received from the har- bour watch-house that a vessel was burning red flares, south of Newhaven Breakwater, and at 8.25 the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...

AT HASTINGS on May 17 (above) a D class ILB, the cost of which had been given by J. H. Minet and Co., was presented to the station by E. G.

Denman (left), Managing Director of the Marine Division of Minets, and accepted by...

The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...

Stag rescued after cliff plunge The British are proud of being a nation of animal lovers. Only here would a major rescue operation be mounted to save a wild animal. But as a deer was finally pulled to safety after a 5 hour ordeal, everyone...

Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …

'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....

A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.

BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...