LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 6.15 A.M. on the 13th October the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station told the coxswain that Holmpton coastguard had reported a steam trawler ashore at Dimlington. She was the Kirby. of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a...

On the morning of the 2nd April it was reported that two young men, who had set out on the previous afternoon to explore the cliffs and caves at Studland, had not been seen since. Passenger steamers plying between Swanage and Bourne- mouth...

BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...

Hoylake, Cheshire. Between nine o'clock and 10.50 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coxswain kept the yacht Clytie, which was lying at anchor in the Swash to the north of Hilbre Island, under observation. Dur- ing this time...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...

Dogged determination North Berwick's D class inflatable was called out during July this year after a Golden Retriever decided to show off the breed's prowess in the water.

Six year old Homer decided to take a dip...

JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...

• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...