LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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• In 1983 was published the first part of the late Grahame Farr's comprehensive Lists of British Lifeboats, covering non self-righting, pulling and sailing boats from 1775 to 1916. Before his death later...

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

As a result of the stoppage of the building of life-boats, the Institution’s own machinery shop, in its depot at Boreham Wood, Herts, which overhauled and repaired its engines, and made all the machinery for motor life-boats except the...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.

At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...

PADSTOW.—On the morning of the 29th March the schooner Lizzie Trenberth, of Fowey, was seen about three miles N.W.

of Trevose Head. She was under close reefed sails, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.W. and the sea...

Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...

North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.

Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...

Six motor fish- ing boats from Whitby put to sea on the morning of the 10th February. By the time that they were expected back a moderate N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and snow, showers, making the entrance into harbour very...