LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cdr E W Monckton QBE RN(RTD), Honorary President of Troon station branch. He joined the branch in 1965 and remained as President until his death.. - View image in PDF

JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...

Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd July, 1965, the motor vessel Ferndene of Sunderland was reported to have developed a dangerous list. She was off the north coast of Stroma island and her crew of seven had inflated a life-raft in...

LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.

Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...

Committee cheque In September members of the Pembrokeshire 175 Anniversary committee visited Cardigan lifeboat station to admire the new Atlantic 75 lifeboat Tanni Grey and to present a cheque for £7,000, part of the final balance of... - View image in PDF

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1955, a man who had just come in from sea in his fishing boat told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen a yacht aground near the West Gunfleet buoy, but that he had been...

Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …

‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...

OCTOBER 24TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen from the auxiliary ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford, which had dragged her anchor and was drifting...