LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY Launches 35 Lives rescued 39 JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was...

Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...

Hythe, Rcsslare Harbour, Berwick-on-Tweed, St. Mary's, Campbeltown and TroonBESIDES the four Inaugural Ceremonies, already described, in which members of the Royal Family took part, five Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held...

FRENCH YACHT DISMASTED Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A French yacht was seen to be in difficulties with a broken mast two miles north west of the Nab Tower at 8.51 p.m. on 9th July, 1965. She had anchored near the Dean Tail buoy. The life-boat...

Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...

My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire,   on Tuesday 17 July.

We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...

MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...

4Extreme weather in the fi rst weeks of 2008 meant a busy time for several lifeboat stations. Stornoway’s Severn class lifeboat Tom Sanderson was out in force 11 winds, classed a violent storm, on 1 February. The trawler Spinningdale had run...