LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...

Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.52 on the night of the 10th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported that a vessel had run ashore to the northward. At 10.6 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service No. 7 was...

WHEN the Institution's President, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, returned from her visit to Malaya at the begin- ning of December 1952, the Institu- tion sent to her the following telegram, signed by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.,...

RESCUES FROM CAPSIZED CANOES Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two canoes, with two men in each, had overturned off Amroth...

THE hundredth anniversary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Kirkcudbright was commemorated at a ceremony at the harbour on the 19th July, when Lord Saltoun, Convener of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the...

FOUR YOUTHS GET ASHORE UNAIDED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At twenty minutes past two on the afternoon of Sunday the 22nd September, 1963, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a 22-foot sptiedboat with four youths on...

The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 8.30 a.m. on 4th December, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down about 16 miles south south east of the Lizard and had been calling for assistance since the early...

A Sea King helicopter from 202 squadron RAF Brawdy flies past the naming ceremony site at Tenby on September 29, 1986, in salute to the station's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, RFA Sir Galahad. A description of the proceedings can be... - View image in PDF