LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report that a sailing yacht with a number of people on board was aground on the rocks near the Royal Marines rifle range...

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OCTOBER 11TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 9.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a rubber dinghy, with two men on board, was in the sea eleven miles E.S.E. of Skegness. A strong northerly wind was...

KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...

OCT. 6TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a steamer of...

Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, {Deluding the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 308 Life-boat Stations...

ON Sunday, the 19th of February, 1961, the first television appeal on behalf of the life-boat service was broadcast by the B.B.C. The appeal to viewers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was made by Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas. That to...