LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...

Scuba divers rescued In steep breaking surf and Force 7 SSE winds,Salcombe's Tyne class lifeboat The Baltic Exchange II rescues three scuba divers from Hertfordshire overboard from their capsized rigid inflatable diving boat and in...

Waveney 13 4m Self-righting Lifeboat sr craft for the total coastguard concept Tracker 19 6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton, Telephone: Hamble 2661 Telex: 47546.

Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...

Figureheads were a feature of this fishermen's hut (left) which once stood near the harbour mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. The figureheads shown below portray (left to right) William IV, the Sailor King1; a woman who once adorned the bow... - View image in PDF

Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...

The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....

and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.

Not the...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Mary Isabella was launched at 6 P.M. on the 29th January in a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea and succeeded in saving the crew of four hands of the schooner Useful of Barrow-in-Furness from a position of...