LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Called out twice FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987, found Scotland's Banffshire coast in the grip of force 6-7 east-south-easterly winds and rough seas, with overcast skies and rain squalls adding to the wintry scene.

At 1939 the...

APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...

PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia...

Canoes HEARING AT 1335 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that a canoe had capsized off Dover, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins informed Dover Port Control that he and a crew member who was with him were going to the boathouse to stand by....

Survivor snatched from yacht seconds before she sinks A service in very difficult weather conditions, carried out in full view of hundreds of local people and holiday-makers on the shore, has earned Barry Bennett, the coxswain of St Mary'...

AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.

P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...

AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...