LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...

Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...

LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st December to 29th February: Launches 201, lives saved 67 DECEMBER No. 3 Life-boat Area Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.

on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed...

Mrs Vera Morris, wife of the senior partner in Sinclair Roche and Temperley, the firm of solicitors which funded the new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat, christens her Eft's Sinclair after the founder of the firm at a ceremony held at... - View image in PDF

There was an early wake-up call for Tenby lifeboat crew in September when a lone sailor found himself aground amid pounding waves

The lone yachtsman aboard his 7m boat Maridadi had dropped...

Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...

VIGILANT CREW IN FAST RESCUE SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on the 10th April, 1972; Coxswain R. W. Wood and Second Coxswain W. V. Burrell of the Aldeburgh life-boat became concerned for the safety of three fellow longshore fishermen who had not yet...

(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.

Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...