LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

Falmouth Lifeboat and St Simeon. - View image in PDF

Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, photographed during a service to the French trawler, St Simeon on February 15, 1985. Penlee and Plymouth lifeboats were also involved in the service, a full account of which will appear... - View image in PDF

South East Division Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation...

The Oxfordshire life-boat at Looe re- mained alongside the schooner St. Brannoch, of Bideford, which vessel had stranded near Maymean, near Looe Island. Ulti- mately the vessel was got off and taken into harbour, the life-boat assisting on...

Dial 999 for fire, police, ambulance, life-boat.

Those words on the cover of the Jersey telephone directory, in large type, caught my eye soon after I landed on the island. They sum up very neatly the efficient way in which...

Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 10.-12 on the night of the 24th of March, 1953, the Ramsey coastguard rang up to say that a vessel south of Douglas Head was blowing short blasts on its siren, and at eleven o'clock the Douglas Head Lighthouse...

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE Landing Craft G.16.

On the 25th April, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a survivor from H.M.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM WATTS H. WILLIAMS was awarded the bronze medal..