LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 9TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

The motor life-boat T.B.R.H. was launched at 2.10 in the afternoon at the request of the naval officer in charge, Londonderry, to go to the help of a small rowing boat of Nagilligan, which...

NOVEMBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. An aeroplane had fallen in the sea, but the airmen had already reached safety in their rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £12 4s..

JUNE 5TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At eleven in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported a small yacht in Derbyhaven Bay flying a signal. A later message said that she had lost her small boat and that her cable had parted. A...

SEPTEMBER 9TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. A rowing boat had been reported drifting out to sea, but it was carried back by the tide. - Rewards, £5 11s..

DECEMBER 7TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

When the evening came the local motor fishing boat Rose Mary had not returned and anxiety was felt for her safety.

About eleven o’clock the coastguard reported a small...

A Dutchman in London, unable to send his usual subscription of £10 tc his own life-boat Service in the Netherlands, has sent it instead to the Institution..

MAY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British Spitfire aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the pilot was picked up by a trawler. - Rewards, £8 16s..

Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...