LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Cornish Life-boat Appeal got off to a good start on 30th May, 1972, when it was launched by the Bishop of Truro on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall at County Hall, Truro.

It was announced at the meeting that...

Three children adrift THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Margate lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1715 on Tuesday, June 1, that three children in an inflatable dinghy were being taken out to sea on the ebb tide.

In...

JANUARY 27TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.

While the Staithes fishing fleet was out during the morning the weather worsened and by noon the sea was very rough, the wind had risen almost to a gale and it was snowing. There was a...

Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd November, 1939, four motor fishing cobles were at sea. The weather was bad. Watch was kept, and at 11.40 A.M., as the conditions were then dangerous for the returning boats, the pulling and...

Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...

Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...

Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.

Launches 62 Lives rescued 8

NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.

The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...