LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 19TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.

A small motor boat, attached to the Air Ministry, with only one man on board, had got lost in a dense fog, but she was eventually picked up by a Gourdon fishing boat, thirteen miles from her...

Lymington: For the rescue of two men from the fishing boat Al Mor, driven ashore on marshland in near gale force winds on December 17, 1980, Helmsman Alan Coster (c.) was awarded the bronze medal and Crew Members Peter Harvey (I.) and Simon... - View image in PDF

Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...

AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...

JANUARY 6TH - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

At 5.25 in the morning the resident naval officer at Penzance reported that a convoy had been attacked about five miles south of Treen coastguard hut. A moderate southwest wind was blowing...

PLYMOUTH 1-10 QUEEN ATTERY The 1 st April, 1988, sees the opening of the most exciting Marine Event to be held in Plymouth since the Spanish Armada approached the shores of England.

The Plymouth Boat Show, a ten day Marine...

KESSINGLAND.—On the 22nd December, the schooner Eliza, of Sunderland, and the sloop Firm, of London, were observed showing signals of distress on Benacre Point. The No. 2 Life-boat, the Grace and Lolly, of Broad Oak, was promptly launched,...

Lady Fry Naming The "Manchester and Salford". - View image in PDF