LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a...

Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.

—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...

DECEMBER 25TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At nine in the morning the coastguard reported that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on Fladdachuain Island off the north of Skye, but that another vessel was standing by. A...

AUGUST 9TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

At 9.15 in the evening the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the south end of Stroma. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas...

The barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the sands at Cromer. Her sails in ribands. Her crew of two men taking to the rigging. A life-saving rocket on its way to her.. - View image in PDF

For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF

DURING 1937 sixty-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £222 6*. 6d- Two more clubs held the competition than in 1936, and £25 more was contributed. The same appeal has been made...

From the beginning of the war up to to-day the life-boats of the Institution have rescued 3840 lives. They have rescued more lives in just over twenty-two months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 40 lives a week,...