LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TREGANTLE BEACH | 21 JUNE

A woman who’d collapsed while walking up the cliff from Tregantle Beach in Cornwall was given emergency first aid by RNLI lifeguards. They moved the woman out of the...

JANUARY 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the afternoon of the 20th January the Athlone Broadcasting Station asked listeners to inform the life-boat authorities that a vessel was in distress. She was the Greek steamer Eleni, of...

KINGSDOWNE.—During a strong S.W.

breeze and hazy weather on the 29th December, signals of distress were shown from a vessel ashore on the Goodwin sands. The Kingsdowne Life-boat proceeded to her, and' found she was an...

The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to the assistance of the fishing dandy Cyprus, of Great Yarmouth, which had shown flares, having stranded on the Inner South Barber Sand, during a moderate W. breeze the 9th...

Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was in distress and the Dungeness Pulling and Sailing Life- boat rescued the crew of three. The Hythe Motor Life-boat also put out and towed in the...

DURING 1936 sixty-four golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland held competitions in aid of the life-boat service for which the Institution presented spoons as prizes. As a result the clubs contributed £196 11s....

On the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat put out to the help of the motor barge Fence.

She rescued the crew of three. Cox- swain Sidney Page has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...

Ix September, 1934, a life-boat rescued two men who were seen clinging to a capsized boat. When she reached them they were completely exhausted.

A few days later they made a gift to the station. Not long afterwards one of...