LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...

HASBOROUGH, NORFOLK.—On Sunday, the 2nd October, shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning, the screw collier Ludworth, of London, bound from Hartlepool to London, having sprung a leak, ran aground on Hasborough beach during a fresh gale...

Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.

on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat...

Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1949, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat, with two on board, was alongside the North Carr Lightvessel. She had sprung a leak. The...

At 3.55 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Seaham life-boat station, Captain R. Hudson, was informed by the coast- guard that, according to a report from a local fisherman, a small boat was still out and...

Taking the strain! With the help of the local Brownie pack Mr John Hunt, a senior railwayman at Lingfield, has raised over £1,500 for the RNLI during the past three years by supplying refreshments at the station, mainly on race days at... - View image in PDF

Tim portrait on the -cover is of Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, who retired in January after serving for fifteen years as an officer of the life-boat. He had been coxswain for nearly six years. He won the silver medal for...

W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....