LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 26th August a message by telephone was received from the South Stack Lighthouse, reporting that a schooner about six miles distant was signalling for assistance. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 12.20...

THE year 1929 was remarkable for the series of intense gales in its last three months, following on an autumn of prolonged drought. The gales are de- scribed on another page. Here it is sufficient to say that during the ninety- two days of...

Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.

Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...

PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...

ANSWERING FLASH At 7 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small yacht had capsized off the mouth of the river Dart in a moderate to rough sea with strong to near gale force southsouth- westerly winds. At 7.15...

Awards to coxswains, creiv members and shore helpers The following coxswains, crew members and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 1998. Those entitled to them under the Institution's regulations...

Moelfre's Tyne class \ifeboatRobertand Violet was called out to the 27ft yacht Moulin Rouge on 12 July 1991. The yacht was in difficulties seven miles NE of Moelfre Island in rough seas and a SSW wind of Force 7 to...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—At 8.10 A.M. on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...