LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.45 P.M . it was learned that the motor fishing coble Doris had not returned. On board was the lifeboat coxswain, George Leng, with a crew of three. It was very dark, with a rough sea and a...

MFV Ashore A MOTOR FISHING VESSEL ashore on the south side of the Conwy approach channel was reported to a deputy launching authority of Conwy inshore lifeboat station by Penmon Coastguard at 0752 on Thursday, April 14. Maroons were fired...

Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....

FIRST OF ALL, may I say how happy I am to have become associated with Shoreline as membership secretary. It has been a great pleasure to receive your welcoming letters and already, after only a few weeks, I feel that I am among old...

LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...

Lewis drops in Actor Kevin Whately, known to many as Inspector Lewis of television's Inspector Morse, took time out of his busy schedule to open the Seahouses lifeboat fete on August 30.

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DECK CARGO OF TIMBER SHIFTED ON DANISH SHIP Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.7 a.m. on 31 st August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a Danish vessel had developed a very heavy list and was in danger of sinking twelve miles east of Fetlar. The...

AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...