LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 28TH. - GALWAY BAY. A flying boat was overdue, but was later sighted in Clew Bay. The life-boat went as far as Cleggan, but returned on learning that the flying boat had been located. - Rewards, £15..

The Wrecked Life-Boat "Arab" In The Background Is The Wreck of the "Peace and Plenty/'. - View image in PDF

Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 3rd September, 1939, information was received from the police that a small boat was in difficulties outside the breakers in Woollacombe Bay. A squally W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy...

IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.

Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...

THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...

WOLVERHAMPTON has launched an appeal to provide an Atlantic 21 ILB complete with launching tractor, trailer, boathouse, slipway and all operational equipment at Abersoch, North Wales, where many Wolverhampton people, on holiday, take to the...

My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire,   on Tuesday 17 July.

We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...

The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...