LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.

However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF

Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...

NOVEMBER 4TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

The local fishing cobles Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward had gone out in bad weather, and by 11.45 A.M.

it had got so much worse, with a fresh N.E....

At 1.30 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Iron Ore, then seven miles north west of Bray Head, who needed medical attention. The lifeboat Rowland...

In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched at 3 P.M.

on the 2nd December, and rescued the crew of four hands of the fishing-boat JehoiaJi Wick, of Hoylake, which was in distress...

(left) The sands of Skegness at low water, stretching away left and right from the boathouse (almost central on the shoreline) which houses the station's carriage launched Mersey and inflatable D class. Directly behind it is the... - View image in PDF

A book entitled " Ships of the British Merchant Navy " has been written by Paymaster-Lieutenant E. C. Talbot- Booth, R.N.R., and will be published shortly by Messrs. Andrew Melrose Ltd.

It is a record of the ships...

‘You have a natural instinct with boats. No one can teach you that,’ said former Swanage Crew Member Winky Marsh to Holly Phillips then aged 15

A Londoner by birth, the young Holly spent her Summers in Swanage, Dorset, and...