LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.

This was at 3.30 P.M. The...

SAILING DINGHY BEACHED AFTER CAPSIZE Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 24th August, 1962, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half north-east of Arklow harbour. The...

With enormous surf breaking violently around them, how could two hypothermic men possibly escape their rocky prison?

Whipsiderry Bay is one of Cornwall’s ‘hidden gems’ that sees surfers catching waves all year round. So it...

SELSEY, SUSSEX.—The Four Sisters Lifeboat was launched about 5 P.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Saraca, of Glasgow, which had stranded on the Outer Owers during a moderate gale of wind from the E. and a very heavy sea. The...

Coxswain James Thomas Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies, died on 1st January, at the age of seventy-one.

He had spent twenty-eight years as an officer of the life-boat, being appointed bowman in 1897, second coxswain...

Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.

THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 11.45 p.m. on 30th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board was overdue from South Uist. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 12.25...

German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...