LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Les Coe, the head launcher, shovels an evenly sloping pathway between the sea and the short slipway by the turntable.. - View image in PDF

ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.

This time it is a collision between...

A request was received from the Officer Com- manding, 4th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers, Gosport, on the 10th Decem- ber, for the help of the Life-boat, as three men were marooned on St. Helen's Fort without food. The Motor Life-...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH SEPTEMBER 2 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just after two in the morning the coastguard told the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore on the Cairnbulg Briggs, a reef of rocks about two miles away...

No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...

More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?

12 MONTHS
to produce a new...

Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...