LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...

After she returns to shore . . .

A service is not completed when a lifeboat reaches her home port.

Before crew and shore helpers can disperse, summer or winter, day or night, boat must be rehoused,... - View image in PDF

On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...

THE Gorleston Life-boat, the Marie Lane, which has such a magnificent record of fine work, added another page to her illustrious annals by the service rendered in connexion with the wreck of the schooner Dart, of Jersey, on the 29th March...

Lieutenant H.R.H. Prince George, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the two Motor Life-boats at Stromness and Longhope in the Orkneys on the 6th June.

These are the two most northerly Life-boat Stations in the British...

Lifeboats of the World Gather at La Coruna. - View image in PDF

October 20th, at 5 P.M.

The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.

Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...

MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.

We were on passage from Falmouth...