LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TOW FOR SCHOONER WITH SEA CADETS ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares half a mile off Abbotsbury. Seven minutes later the...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.20 on the night of the 19th of October, 1954, a woman at Sheshader rang up to say that a fishing boat had run ashore off Sheshader. At 10.45 the life- boat The James and Margaret Boyd, put out. The sea was...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 3.34 on the afternoon of the 9th of March, 1940, the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched one hour before low water to go to the help of the fishing vessel St. Jacques of Vaag, Faroe Islands, which...

" WE regret to state that the effects of yesterday's gale have been of a most disastrous character as regards the destruction of property. That human life has not been sacrificed to a most deplorable extent is attributed solely to...

On the morning of the 23rd September a heavy gale sprang up, accompanied by a very rough sea. About 52 of the herring-boats were then out at sea, but several of these landed. Others, however, held on by their nets, hoping that the gale would...

WE KNOW ABOUT THE SEA HERE and we have the books to prove it! DEVON as your introduction to the Maritime Book Society worth up to £20 or more at publishers' prices! rnrnrn x oks numbers j J I 1 [__ I would like to join the...

MR. ERNEST MARPLES, Minister of Transport, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service for the year 1959/60 jointly to the Rattray Head and Fraserburgh life-saving appliance companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that Messrs. Wimpey had requested the help of the life-boat, as one of their pontoons two miles north of Hartlepool was...