LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

1st February to 30th April, 1935.

Greater London.

ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...

JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 59 times and rescued 34 lives.

DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the...

What's the cover story? The cover of the Spring issue of The Lifeboat certainly sparked some lively correspondence last quarter. Some of you thought it was a refreshing change, others weren't so keen.

Here follows...

ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....

CANOEISTS SAVED At about 12.5 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that some 24 boys in canoes were in difficulties about one mile offshore near Herne Bay Pier. At 12.10 the IRB launched in a strong south...

Newbiggin lifeboat had a call out with a twist on 15 November 2010, as two members of the crew found themselves rescuing some familiar faces. Two men in the traditional fishing coble Crystal Sea called Humber Coastguard at 10.40am, reporting...

TYNEMOUTH AND CULLERCOATS | 18 JANUARY
A trio of kayakers made a radio distress call after their craft capsized just outside Tynemouth Pier, leaving them at the mercy of stormy waters. Cullercoats...

PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...