LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dur- ing a moderate W.N.W. gale with a heavy sea and rain, at about 9.30 P.M.

on 29th October, information was re- ceived that the open motor fishing boat Blue Sell, of Barrow, which had been fishing off Duddon Estuary, had...

Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...

Recently I came across some old photographs which I am sending to you hoping they will be of interest. In 1937 we were spending a family holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, and one day during our first week we found ourselves, with other holiday... - View image in PDF

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT ARRANMORE DECEMBER 7TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. In the early morning a message was received at the lifeboat station on Arranmore Island, off the north-west coast of Ireland, that a vessel, in convoy, had gone on a...

During a whole W.S.W. gale on the night of the 20th February signals of distress were observed fr«m a vessel in.

the St. Tudwell's Eoads. Throughout the day it had been seen that the vessels there had been having...

INDIAN SEAMAN At 12.45 a-m- on ist November, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that an Indian seaman on board a vessel anchored near the Bar lightvessel was in urgent need of medical treatment. There was a smooth sea with very little wind...

St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Dido, of Portreath, which had put out from Portreath the even- ing before with a crew of three, had not returned...

AGED 60 TO 90? HOMEOWNER? We kept our retirement dreams afloat A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal...