LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.

The Life-boat was launched and found the...

Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, a message was received from Niton radio that a Greek seaman aboard the S.S. Panaghia had been taken ill and needed medical attention. At 2.55 the life-boat...

Taking doctors to a casualty is fairly common - but the crew of New Brighton's Atlantic were called on to ferry local dentist Neil Thomas to the Greek master of the coaster Porta Aistissa on 2 January 1989.

The master...

ALL NIGHT SERVICE TO DUTCH COASTER Holyhead, Anglesey. At half past nine on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht in the harbour was flashing SOS signals. The...

Around the Fundraising Regions A list of branches and guilds from the Central England and Wales regions CENTRAL ENGLAND RNLI 102 Birmingham Road Bromsgrove Wares B61 ODF Tel (0527) 575017 Regional Organiser, Ms J. Feeney LLB Warwickshire...

D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...