LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Crew of the Motor Life-boat Edward Z, Dresden were assembled at 2.28 A.M. on 10th February, as the Coastguard had reported that the s.s. Urla, of London, was aground on the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.50, however, news was received from North...

Mr G.H.N. Walford, a committee member of the Sevenoaks and District branch for over 20 years, ten of which he served as box secretary. Mr Walford was awarded a statuette in 1988..

On the 26th August, during a strong westerly gale, information was received at this Life-boat station that a large vessel was ashore about four miles distant. The Life-boat Jessie Knowles was taken along the shore on her carriage until she...

With deep regret we record the following deaths.

MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979.

MAY 1988: Mrs Dorothy Smith, first...

Lifeboat exhibition: West Mersea Primary School is a loyal supporter of the lifeboat service, having contributed more than £1,000 during the past few years. For its latest project individual children wrote to 150 lifeboat stations... - View image in PDF

Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.56 p.m. on 4th August, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in trouble about two miles north-east of Ramsey. At 9.6 the yacht was reported to be making heavy weather and...

Penlee, Cornwall.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 17th of September, 1957, the port doctor asked if the life- boat could take an injured man off the S.S. Alexandria, which was expected to be two miles south of Wolf light- house...

In 1940 the Manchester and Salford Branch launched an appeal for £10,000 to build a motor life-boat to replace the life-boat which had been lost in the evacuation of the B. E. F. from Dunkirk. That fund has now been completed. It has...