LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte, paid a visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station on 7 February.

The Moderator was introduced to Captain Brian Atkinson,...

THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...

A NUMBER of outstanding services were carried out by life-boat crews in the first quarter of 1962. Of these one of the finest was by a life-boat crew in the Irish Republic ; another was by a crew in Northern Ireland, and a third by the crew...

MAY 13TH. - GALWAY BAY, AND FENIT, CO. KERRY. Three men, who had left Kilronan in a canoe, had been reported missing, but they reached land in County Clare.

- Rewards : Galway Bay, £13 16s. ; Fenit, £13...

On the 7th April four men and a woman put out for a trial run in a motor boat, the Seafarer. When about a mile offshore, in Weymouth bay, they ran out of petrol and their boat began to drift out to sea. One of the men swam ashore and gave...

Propeller fouled NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CALLS were received by Brixham Coastguard at about 0120 on Wednesday August 18, 1982, reporting the sighting of red flares off Teignmouth Pier. Teignmouth Coastguard rescue company were immediately alerted...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, a message was received from Bull Fort in the River Humber that a work- man had fallen and broken his ribs.

No other boat was available to take him...

A race with a difference took place in Berkshire in aid of the RNLI. When the minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, Rabbi Jonathan Romain, heard that the ancient Cookham regatta was to be revived he proposed that one of the races be entitled the... - View image in PDF