LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Signals of distress having been shown by the Middle Light Vessel on the 16th February, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 1.15 A.M., proceeded to the Lightship and was informed that a vessel was ashore on the Maplin...

Summer is almost here, and RNLI lifeguards on 150 beaches in England and Wales are getting ready for the crowds that will flock to the seaside in the glorious weather (here’s hoping!).

This year, the RNLI will provide...

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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HELICOPTER AIDS RESCUE At 9.30 a.m. on i2th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel City of Waterford of Dublin, six miles southwest of St. Catherine's Point, was on fire and that the crew of...

FEBRUARY 8TH . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that S.S. Thala, of London, was ashore on the S.E. corner of the Island of South Uist. She was a vessel of 4,399 tons, laden, and bound...

BRIGADIER R. J. P. WYATT, M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P., District Organising Secre- tary for the South-East of England from August 1927 to December 1952, died on the 22nd of October, 1954.

Brigadier Wyatt was educated at...

Cullercoats, Northumberland.—During foggy weather on the morning of the llth August, 1938, the Norwegian steamer Fagerheim, of Tons berg, ran ashore, in a smooth sea, south of Briardene. Information was given by the coastguard, and at 10.40...

Wells: On board Ernest Tom Nethercoat Coxswain David Cox explains to the president the use and working of a drogue.. - View image in PDF