LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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JANUARY 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

At 4.30 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the coastguard station and needed a tug. The coxswain assembled the life-boat crew and stood...

DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.

PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...

Twelve months ago we predicted another busy, challenging year for the RNLI. and our predictions have certainly proved correct.

The launchings of the prototype FABs 3 and 4 were keenly anticipated as so many of our future...

Ex-trawler ablaze THE HARWICH Waveney class relief lifeboat Khami was returning from a publicity visit to the East Coast Boat Show at Ipswich on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 1987, when the fiveman crew spotted smoke billowing from the...

At 12.45 P.M. on the 18th March two of the fishing-cobles belonging to Robin Hood's Bay, named the Emily and Eva and The Three Brothers, which had gone off earlier in the morning to fish, were in danger. Whilst fishing the wind and sea...

Friday, 17th November, 1922.

The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.

Reported the death of Rear-Admiral Hector B. Stewart, a Member of the Committee of Management for many years.

JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...