LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

31st Janu- ary. A hulk without lights had broken away from her tug off Chapel St. Leonards, thirty-five miles from the life-boat station. It was believed that a man was on board. The sea was heavy, with a strong northerly wind and rain....

On the 29th December, the brigantine Test, of Portmadoc, was on a voyage from Bristol to that port, when her ballast shifted and she had to hoist signals for assistance. In response thereto, the John Gray Bell Life-boat was launched, and...

Stornoway's Arun SirMaxAitken Is pictured from aboard the stranded merchant vessel Golf Star as the lifeboat stands by in worsening weather on 21 October 1995.

The Antiguan registered Golf Star was on passage from...

Cromer, Norfolk - At 11.21 p.m. on 4th July, 1967, red flares were reported two miles east of Haisbro' coastguard lookout. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 11.33 in a light south westerly breeze and a slight...

Exmouth, Devon. At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of July, 1958, the Beer coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Seaton police had reported a 14-feet motor boat adrift with engine trouble off the western beach. Her owner had...

EXTENSIVE SEARCH At 8.15 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that an empty sailing dinghy had been picked up by a vessel off No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.35....

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Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...

THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...