LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about 6.30 P.M. on the 19th June, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through Cullercoats wireless station and Blyth coastguard that the s.s. London had in tow the brokendown motor yacht Irene...

EXHAUSTED ROWERS Wicklow.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 10th of August, 1947, a telephone message was received from the light- keeper at Wicklow Head that two rowing boats were in difficulties south of Wicklow Head in a very strong ebb...

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.15 in the evening of the 1st of October, 1948, cries for help could be heard off the pier, and at 8.27 the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light south- westerly breeze...

Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At six in the evening of the 16th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that two sailing yachts were becalmed in fog,jone to the north of the pier and the other to the south, and that they were a danger...

Hastings, Sussex. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 22nd of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fisherman had reported to the police that a fishing vessel was making signals of distress off St. Leonards Pier.

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering...

In the background a the Life-boat House and Fishermen's Arch, on the right the Life-boat with the Crew at attention.. - View image in PDF

(Photographed on board the Life-boat which was stationed at Tottenham Town Hall on Life-boat Day in Greater London, May 20th, 1930.). - View image in PDF