LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.

SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...

In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.

Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...

THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...

Looking seaward from the crew room above Walmer boathouse with the station's Atlantic 21 run out ready to launch over the shingle beach.. - View image in PDF

Three days later Dover coastguard reported to Hastings station honorary secretary at 1030 on Monday July 16, that the Belgian yacht, Kotique, had engine trouble and needed a lifeboat.

As the station's 37ft Oakley class...

AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Cromarty life-boat station, Mr. James Cameron, learnt from the coastguard that the coaster Servus of Leith needed help nine and a half miles south-by-east...

Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...

WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...