LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ST MARY’S | 15 MAY
With 48 passengers onboard, a passenger boat hit trouble off the Isles of Scilly’s Western Rocks, and her skipper sent out a mayday call. Nearby vessels arrived moments later, with a RIB pilot using his boat to...

THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...

OUTBOARDS MARINER DOESNT JUST PROMISE RELIABILITY it proves it! II you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promised GREATER RELIABILITY as an Important reason for...

D CLASS VEERED DOWN IN CONFUSED SEAS Family of five snatched to safety from base of cliff on rising tide A service by Little and Broad Haven's D class on 23 September 1995 to a family stranded at the base of a cliff on a rising tide has...

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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 29th of January, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves oj Sheffield was launched to the help of the motor boat Sceptre, which was in difficulties in worsening weather con- ditions one mile...

Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...

On the 10th April the motor schooner Edith May, of Wexford, bound from Douglas to Ardrossan with a cargo of scrap iron, was overtaken by bad weather and anchored. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy rain. Her anchors...