LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.

It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...

JANUARY 9TH . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

At 11 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that a Greek steamer was sinking north of Unst, and that the life-boat should go to Balta Sound and await further...

THE occasional claims for property salvage made by members of life-boat crews sometimes lead to misunder- standing of both the law and practice in this matter, and mis-statements of fact are not infrequently made both publicly and privately....

STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...

Courdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 3.30 P.M., on the 19th January, 1939, a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for Gourdon...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...

The sinking steam-drifter Dusty Miller, from which the life-boat rescued the crew of three, is on the right. On the left is a Dutch oil tanker. She gave the life-boat a lee.

From a photograph by the motor-mechanic, Percy... - View image in PDF

In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.

Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...