LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...

Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...

AT 2.25 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1955, the Kilchoman coast- guard telephoned a report which he had received from a farmer. This was that a fishing boat was in distress off Smaull Point on the north-west coast of...

Swimming cow saved Crew members at Douglas lifeboat station, Isle of Man, have received a certificate of commendation from the RSPCA following their rescue of a cow, which had got stuck in a rocky cove at the bottom of a...

Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, was on passage to Hanlepool on August 16, 1981. under the command of Coxswain William Carter when she was informed b Tees Coastguard that the motor cruiser Marietta was... - View image in PDF

On the 6th March the Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was successful in saving 3 men from the Dutch galliot Anna, dazma, wrecked near the entrance to the harbour. The seas were making a clean breach over this vessel when boarded by the...

Walmer, Kent.—At 11.56 on the night of the 18th of October, 1954, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground two and a half miles east of the coastguard sta- tion and had signalled SOS. At 12.10 early on the 19th the...

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