LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.10 on the night of the 16th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the parents of the crew of the fishing boat Dunottar Castle that the men were five hours overdue from fishing lobsters...

BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two...

During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 6th of May, 1955, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to call attention to the position of a sailing yacht in Falmouth Bay. He later stated that she might need help as the weather was bad. At...

A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERIAND.—The schooner Aspirant, of Stavanger, ran into the bay, being unable to beat off the shore in a moderate E. gale, a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 22nd March. The Life-boat Robert and Susan, on her transporting...

LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.20 p.m.

on 12th April, 1968, a report was received that a small boat was firing flares 500 yards from Stackpool quay. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.28 in a moderate easterly...