LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

M. MARIE-DAVY, who is intrusted with the Meteorological Department at the Observatory, Paris, has communicated a Paper to the Academy of Sciences on the great storm of the 2nd and 3rd of December. He confirms the statement that it was owing...

IN the review of Major Ernest Cooper's book Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was mentioned that the book could be bought from the Institution, price 3s. 6d. post...

IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.

We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...

When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own

Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of  some...

Propeller fouled AT ABOUT 2100 on Thursday June 1, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Hartlepool lifeboat station that a Shackleton aircraft and a helicopter were searching for the MFV Dolphin whose trawl had caught on an...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.20 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Red Crusader, of Fleetwood, had radioed that she was ashore, two miles. north of Port Askaig. The...

Scapa Flow in War and Peace by W.S. Hewison published by Bellavista Publications at £8.00 ISBN 0-9525350-0-9 Although mention of the name Scapa Flow immediately brings to mind the area's naval connections this 270sq mile patch of...

What do you think of our new-look magazine?

Unless this is your first issue, you’ll notice some big changes: a smaller format, more eye-catching design and photography, and a focus on...