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BooKs BOOKS From the history of lifeboats and lighthouses to pastimes for Winter evenings, Carol Waterkeyn reviews what’s new on the shelves this season Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This...

Nearly saved . . . by a motor lifeboat I was interested in the feature 'Saved by a motor lifeboat', which appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Lifeboat.

There is an interesting story pertaining to this film - I...

PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...

St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue

‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...

When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …

Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...

When a cargo ship lost power and started drifting towards danger, two lifeboat crews headed out on a rescue that would test their endurance to the limit ‘It’s an unusual coincidence,' says Padstow Mechanic Mike England, ‘that for the...

Rescues by IRB's in August were carried out by the following stations: NORTH WEST Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.28 a.m. on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties in Red Wharf bay. The IRB...