LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TYNEMOUTH | 30 MARCH
The skipper of a 28-tonne trawler radioed for help when its propeller fouled in fishing gear, leaving the three-man crew adrift 12 miles off Whitley Bay. Tynemouth’s Severn crew towed them to safety, arriving...

ISLE OF WHITHORN, N.B.—On the re- presentation of Divisional Officer, C. W. M. S. McKERLIE, Esq., of the Coast-guard, and the recommendation of the Inspector of Life-boats, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station on...

DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...

DECEMBER 12TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. Explosions were heard and aeroplanes seen off the harbour. It was thought that a vessel had been attacked by German aeroplanes, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £9 9s..

Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the police at Portmadoc told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy in difficulties at Portmadoc estuary was being swept out to sea on the ebb tide. The coastguard...

Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...

Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...

(above) Atlantic 21: length overall 22ft 6in; beam 7ft 6in; draught, including engines, 2ft 6in; displacement I ton; maximum speed, 29 knots; range at full speed, 70 nautical miles.

The Atlantic 21, introduced in 1972, has... - View image in PDF