LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...

Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...

AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 5th May, at 11 P.M., the fishing smack Falcon, of Great Yarmouth, grounded on the North Sand close fo the entrance of the harbour, during an E.N.E. wind and a very strong sea. She exhibited flares, and signals were...

NOEFOLK, — The barque Alabama, of Helsingborg, Sweden, struck on the Sunk Sands off Hnnstanton on the evening of the 20th November, and then drove over the sands and filled with water. Being timber laden she did" not sink, but went...

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...

THURSO.—The Life-boat Charley Lloyd was launched at 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th November, during a heavy gale from the N., snow, and a high sea, to the assistance of the schooners William Jones, of Carnarvon, and Sylph, of...

Early on the morning of the 9th April the Beadnell and North Sunderland fishing boats put to sea, but the weather became bad and eight of them returned.

At 10.30 A.M. a very strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy...