LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The...

THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Abersoch Crew Member B. D. McGill Clogher Head Motor Mechanic J. Garvey Eastbourne Coxswain G. Cole Fishguard...

Eight hundred branches held flag days in 1941, and 508 of thsse days collected more than ever before. 9,288,000 people contributed. That is 1,561,000 more than in 1940, and the biggest number who have ever given. The sum raised was...

10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...

On the night of the 12th January the steam-tug Hob Boy, of Sunderlaud, ran ashore on Whitburn rocks. On the alarm being given, the Whitburn life-boat was promptly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 4 men and...

Jan. 3.—Voted II. !0s. to 3 men of Lerwick, N.B., who rescued 3 persons from the smack Teazer, of Sandsair, Shetland, which had been caught by a squall, and had sunk off Bressay, Shetland, on the 31st October.

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Appledore, Devon.—During the afternoon of the 29th March the motor barge Invincible, of Appledore, was swamped when between Middle Ridge and Bar Buoy in the Torridge estuary. She carried a crew of three, and was bound for Appledore, laden...