LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jewels for a lifeboat: A member of Phillips' staff models some of the 17 items of jewellery Mrs Esme Anderson generously gave to the RNLI for auction to pay for a new £390,000 Arun class lifeboat to be stationed at Newhaven and to... - View image in PDF

Wick lifeboat assists US yacht Wick's Tyne class lifeboat Norman Sali'esini launched at 0045 on 1 September to the casualty Fridor, a sailing yacht from Ohio, which was on passage from the Shetland Islands. Nearing the Caithness...

SEPTEMBER 17TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the night information was received from the postmaster of Northbay that a small rowing boat, with two men aboard, had been caught in a storm in Barra Sound. A strong N.W. gale was blowing,...

MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.

As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...

At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.27 on the evening of the 6th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a light or flare had been seen to the south-west of Walton pier, and at 7.55 a vessel was seen to burn...

FIRST SERVICE CALL TO NEW IRISH LIFEBOAT Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, a report was received that spectators at the Howth sailing club regatta had seen a yacht in distress. There was a strong ebb tide...

Caister, Norfolk.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 7 A.M. on the 25th April, as a vessel had stranded on the west side of the Barber Sands. She found the yacht Mavan, with two men on board, on the sands N.W....