LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BAU,TWAI,TEE, Co. DOWH.—On Sunday morning the 30th September, at about half- past four o'clock the Coastguard watchman observed a dim light in the direction of the Skull Martin Rock. The Coastguard galley was immediately manned and went...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.41 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground at Foreness Point, and a second message said that a man could be seen in the water. The life- boat, The Lord...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 22: June 11, July 10,16, 23,24, 25,27 (twice) and 30 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21 :June 2 Relief Atlantic 21: June 21, 26 and July 27 Aith, Shetland 52ft Aran ON 1200: June 5,12, 21, July 4,9 and 28...

Walmer, Kent.—At 5.28 on the after- noon of the 27th of April, 1953. the Deal coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Siroco, of Boulogne, had hit a wreck in the Downs and appeared to have stuck, and at 5.35 the life-boat Charles...

LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...

First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...

It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …

The industrial...

ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...