LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The deadly oil slick - an aerial view of the tanker Torrey Canyon whose stranding on the treacherous Seven Stone Rocks near the Scilly Isles on 19th March, 1967, was the most expensive loss of its kind in maritime history. The St Mary's... - View image in PDF

Mrs Maggie Melbourne, Vice chairman and founder member of the Burton St Modwen branch. Maggie first became a member of the branch in the 1960s and continued to serve the committee with great dedication until her death..

by Mike Floyd Salcombe's Tyne class lifeboat The Baltic Exchange II crosses Salcombe bar while on exercise with the new St Ives' Mersey class. The Mersey was on passage to her station, and the exercise part of the working-up routine.... - View image in PDF

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.30 on the night of the 28th of July, 1956, the St. Peter Port signal station re- ported that a yacht was on the rocks in Saint Bay. The life-boat Euphro- syne Kendal put out at 10.54 with the bowman in charge....

Douglas, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At eight o'clock in the morn- ing of the 5th of September, 1951, the Douglas police reported to the Douglas life-boat station that the local fishing coble Silver Night was on the rocks at Port...

Longhope, Orkneys - At 11.15 a.m.

on 2 ist January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient needed urgent hospital treatment.

The life-boat T.G.B., with the patient on board,...

JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...

About a fortnight later, on Saturday June 18, Caroline Finch was on passage to St Helier, in Jersey, on one leg of her extended crew training passage to station; she was under the command of Christopher Price, deputy divisional inspector of...