LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...

25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...

100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, February 1889 issue SOUTH NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK LIFE-BOAT MEN The Life-boat crews of this district, extending from Palling to Southwold, both inclusive, are formed on a ! different system from any...

50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.

That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...

From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...

THURSO, N.B.—Eleven lives were saved by the Life-boat Charley Lloyd, on the afternoon of the 7th March. On that day a heavy gale was blowing from W.N.W., when the barque Walker Hall, of Sunderland, having dragged her anchors from Scrabster...

THURSDAY, 7th October, 1880.

THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond-...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SHERINGHAM OCTOBER 30TH - 31ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 7.47 in the evening of the 29th of October the Sheringham coastguard reported that a vessel off Cley, about five miles west of Sheringham, was showing a signal...