LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LAST November, for the first time since 1924, the Centenary year, a Lifeboat took part in the Lord Mayor's Show. The Boat was a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat from the Reserve Fleet at the Store-yard at Poplar. She was drawn by a...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of the bar. She carried a crew of nine and a pilot, and was bound with a cargo of coal from Ayr to...

RESCUES FROM CAPSIZED CANOES Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two canoes, with two men in each, had overturned off Amroth...

TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.

on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....

Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF

JULY 12TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A British bomber had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 1s. 6d..

THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...

ROSSLARE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wexford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remaining...