LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Engine failure IN A STRONG north-north-easterly gale, force 9, and snow showers, the skipper of the Fraserburgh fishing vessel, John Scott, contacted Shetland coastguard at 1945 on Wednesday April 24, 1985 to report that his engine had...

BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.

From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...

THE following letter has been addressed to some of the Metropolitan Daily and Weekly Papers, on behalf of an object which is de- serving of every support from the Citizens of London:— " Sir,—I am directed by the Committee of the...

ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat immediately proceeded to the...

Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...

Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...

The Institution has now had designed for it, by the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company, a Tractor, with a Roadless Traction creeper track, which, it is hoped, will be able to launch Life-boats off all types of beach. The carriages of the...

Since the report in the winter 1985/6 issue of THE LIFEBOAT on the building of an experimental prototype of a fast carriage launched boat, extensive trials have been taking place. She is photographed (right) undergoing speed tests off...