LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At two in the afternoon a fisherman reported a fishing boat in distress about one mile southsouth- west of Dungeness Lighthouse. She was seen to have a flag flying and had burned a flare....

Volunteers in New Brighton, Wirral, became the proud owners of a new inshore lifeboat in November 2009. This Summer, the B class will be given a special name, marking her place in a long line of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat...

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY On the 29th January, 1940, the Moelfre life-boat rescued the crew of sixty of the S.S. Gleneden, of Glasgow.

COXSWAIN JOHN MATTHEWS was awarded the silver medal.

MOTOR MECHANIC ROBERT...

Lifeboat and casualty swept by breakers during rescue The Director of the RNLI has written to the Cullercoats station congratulating the Helmsman, Robert Oliver, and the crew of the C class inflatable. The letter followed a service to an...

JANUARY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

As the local motor fishing coble Shiela was long overdue, and could not be seen, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 5.55 in the evening, as night was coming on, to look for her....

DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...

NEWHAVEN.— On the 17th January, soon after noon, the Life-boat Elizabeth, Soys was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the screw steamer Rubens, of Liverpool, bound from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp, which vessel had gone ashore in a...

His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President, IN THE CHAIE.

1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF PORTLAND.

Seconded by The Eight Hon. The EAKL PEECY, P.O., M.P.,...