LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

26th December.

A steamer had made a succession of blasts on her whistle, but it was found that what she wanted was only a pilot.

—Rewards, £43 19s. 6d..

Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.

ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...

More rescues than ever, a stormy economic climate, and plans to save more lives in the future: the RNLI’s AGM in May addressed a host of challenges …

Ladies and Gentlemen, set against everything we do is that continuing...

READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...

No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...

Torbay, Devonshire.-—At 6.5 A.M. on the 24th June, 1938, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board had run on to a submerged rock near Berry Head.

A gentle west breeze was blowing;...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.0 on the night of the 3rd of April, 1951, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a small vessel two miles east-south-east of Portland Bill was burning red flares.

At 7.15 the life-boat...

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...