LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—On the 14th April, at daylight, the schooner Wells, of Goole, was observed at anchor off this station, with a signal of distress flying.

The schooner was in a dangerous position on a lee shore, a heavy...

The Lowestoft steam drifter Charter, wrecked on January 7th, 1933. The Salcombe Motor Life-boat stood by, but the crew got ashore unaided.. - View image in PDF

ANGLE, MILFORD HAVEN.— The fullrigged iron ship Loch Shiel, of and from Glasgow, bound for Adelaide and Melbourne, with a general cargo of about 1,600 tons, stranded on Thorn Island, at the entrance to Milford Haven, in a heavy sea on the...

Keep the floating population floating When it's a matter of life and death, you can't afford anything but the best. And the best is an Avon rigid hull inflatable.

Rigid Hull Inflatables are now in service with the R...

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

FRENCH YACHT'S DIFFICULTY At 4.40 p.m. on the same day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dismasted about i\ miles west of the Needles. There was a rough sea with a near gale from the southwest; the weather was...

IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the Llandudno coast- guard that a yacht bound for Liverpool was making heavy weather....