LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 50 Lives rescued 116 OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The...

At 11.30 A.M. on the 29th December the local motor fishing boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee were expected home. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with rain showers and fog, and a strong sea, coming with the flood tide, was...

UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...

T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...

Barmouth, Merionethshire.

The Institution stationed at Barmouth in 1939 a 32-feet surf motor life-boat, with Hotchkiss internal cone propellers. She is like the Poole motor life-boat described in the issue of The Life-boat...

26th July. A steamer making for Dover was seen to have flames coming from her funnel, but she did not need help.—Rewards, £3 15s..

Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.

THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.

The new...

(Left) Four dogs, including the Newfoundland in this photograph, helped Bristol Central branch on their flag day last October. - View image in PDF

Between them they collected H20.. - View image in PDF