LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1950 - 76,899 Twenty-Four Spanish Sailors Rescued A Service by Ilfracombe,...

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Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station.

A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was...

Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. . gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth Life-boat | Anne Frances...

Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat with five people on board had broken down, and that the people on board were waving their arms. The life-boat...

FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

OBVERSE.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...

Galway Bay. At 9.15 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1958, a message was received from Inishmaine Island that a sailing boat carrying turf had grounded in a nearby cove. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out in a choppy...

IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...