LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swimmer saved by lifeboat Coxswain n a remarkable service at Cromer Richard Davies, Coxswain of the station's all-weather lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks Inscribed on Vellum and the three man crew of the inshore D class...

On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...

Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT THEOPHILUS GARDEN, ESQ., OP RIVER LYONS, PHTLIPSTOWN, KING'S COUNTY, IRELAND.

DIED 10TH OCTOBER, 1862, AGED 73 YEARS.

" Him that cometh (o Me I will in no wise cast out."...

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Au- gusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of...

CREWMAN SUPPORTS MAN IN SEA WHEN on 17th January, 1971, news was received that a man had fallen over the cliff about half a mile west of Anvil Point lighthouse, the Swanage, Dorset, life-boat R.L.P.

launched and made...

BY the death of Her Majesty Queen Mary on the 24th of March, 1953, the Life-boat Service lost one of its three Royal Patrons. Queen Mary was the third of the five queens—Queen Vic- toria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (now the...

AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...