LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...

TOOK SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 3.15 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the nurse at Kilronan told the honorary secretary that a sick child was in need of medical treatment at a mainland hospital. The sea was slight with a gentle north-westerly wind...

STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...

On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.

It was also...

SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...

LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the phoenix 121, one of the concrete caissons used for building the invasion port on the coast of Normandy, to which the life-boat had...

Leaving The Wreck Coxswain Blogg Then Runs The Life-Boat on the Beach. - View image in PDF