LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...

Richard Tookey was just 14 when Shoreham lifeboat crew rescued him and his family from their stricken yacht in 1948. Now the station has enough funds to fuel their lifeboat for 5 years after he donated £20,000 as a thank...

Open day drama Hoylake's open day was interrupted when the lifeboat was called out.

Visitors on a guided lour of the Lady of Hilbre were asked to evacuate quickly so she could rush to the aid of a troubled yacht. The...

At 6.45 on the 4th December it was reported that a small schooner, the Sarah and Mary, had struck the Bar and gone j ashore in Seaford Bay. The Life-boat i Michael Henry was launched and pro- ceeded to the vessel. At the request of the...

By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.

ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...

WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...

YACHT ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Margate, Kent.—At 10.46 in the morn- in of the 20th of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a Nor- wegian steamer had reported through the North Foreland Radio Station that three men were adrift in a...

Below: A reconstruction of the rescue for television Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF