LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...

SEAHAM.—On the 21st December the barque Excelsior, of Sunderland, was driven ashore in an E.N.E. gale in Bed Acres Bay, near Seaham. The Life-boat Sisters Carter of Harrogate was conveyed to the spot by land on her carriage, and launched...

'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.

It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...

RAMSGATE.—In response to signals from the Gull Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid at 2.10 A.M., on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and...

A fierce westerly gale swept the Mersey during the early hours of the 27th August, and at about 4 A.M. the large dredger Walter Glynn, belonging to the Docks and Harbour Board, was capsized near the North Wall, Liverpool. She had a crew of...

AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs CLIFF ADAMS SINGERS owieimna THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION The Cliff Adams Singers first presented 'Sing Something Simple1 in 1959 and it became a huge success captivating listeners with medleys of 'old...

The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...