LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FEBRUARY 20TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6.57 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been mined one and a quarter miles S.E. of Mumbles Head. The motor life-boat Edward Prince of Wales was launched at 7.15...

Thursday, Feb. 3,1853. Capt. STEPHENSON ELLERBT in the Chair.

Confirmed minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

The Rev. SHAFTO ORDE reported that...

APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.

a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...

RESCUE MAP RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland as of August 2005.

See page 42 for news of the first Tamar class lifeboat to come on station.

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Welcome! Between the crew of Cromer lifeboat station and our station Ijmuiden a friendship has flourished for some years. This culminated in a visit of our lifeboat Johanna Louisa to Cromer from May 8 until May 11.

The...

The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...

Western Division Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St...

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...