LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .

I am quite sure that the Guild is a...

JUNE 25TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned a report from the east pier watchman that, the ex-German yacht Pirol, which had left harbour for Portsmouth, manned by five R.A.F. men, had grounded on the Brake...

AT 7.85 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1955, Mr. J. B. McClean, the son of the caretaker of Murlough House, noticed flares at sea at the entrance to the Dundrum river. He immediately went to the shore and saw a fishing vessel in...

Launches 45 Lives rescued 66 OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2....

JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.

JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...

AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles vent out in a gale of exceptional severity to the help of the steamer Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which had been driven ashore on the rocks off Sker Point, eleven...

With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard

The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...

BY the kindness of the Lord Mayor of London (Colonel Sir Alfred Louis Bower) a meeting was held at the Mansion House, on 13th January, at which the Mayors, Mayoresses and Town Clerks of the London Boroughs were invited to meet the Committee...