LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A Lancaster bomber aeroplane had crashed and her dinghy had overturned with six airmen on board, but a destroyer escorting a passing convoy rescued two of them, and of the other four only two dead bodies were...

Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1951, a life-boat launcher said he had seen a yacht anchored about three miles off Selsey. She was flying a flag at half mast. There was a steamer near her, but it did not go to...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...

French Yacht A MESSAGE came from the Coastguard to Salcombe honorary secretary at 1335 on Thursday, May 1, to say that the French yacht Alchuader III was unable to manoeuvre due to the very strong winds and the fact that her steering gear...

New Brighton New Brighton's new purpose-built lifeboat station was officially opened by the Mayor of Wirral, Councillor Mike Cooke, on 28 April 1990 in beautiful spring weather.

The building replaces a prefabricated... - View image in PDF

With the passing of the equinox, the temptation can grow to withdraw into the Autumnal gloom. But if you curl up for a good read with this issue of the Lifeboat,you will find yourself transported across land, sea and time.

The Western Commercial Traveller life-boat at Cadgwith, Cornwall, was lent to the fishermen at their earnest request, and the men were thus enabled to put out and cave their large seine net, which had broken away from its fastenings during...

On the 6th Decem- ber, during a gale from N.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and hail, the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, was stranded off St. Andrews. The Annie life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and soon succeeded in...