LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the ketch Totland, with a man, his wife and four children on board, was drifting near the Stones reef. At 5.35 the life-boat Edgar,...

Launches of Life-boats.

Total number of launches, including those in which for various reasons no services were rendered - - - - - - - - - 455 Of these launches 280 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack...

WHITBY MEMORIES

I’ve just read the article ‘Happy birthday, Frammy!’ (Lifeboat, summer 2018). I was born at Whitby in the
1920s and one of my first recollections is watching the crew of the lifeboat trying to...

Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.

and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.

The Little Ship...

A four-year-old girl, who was rescued in June, 1968, from the water at Bude, Cornwall, by one of the crew of the local IRB, afterwards returned to give a him a kiss of thanks.

Her rescuer was Mr. John Bate, aged 25, and the...

At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...

A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...