LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JOINED BY ABERYSTWYTH IRB The Aberdovey IRB was joined by the Aberystwyth IRB, a shore boat from Borth, and an Outward Bound Sea School boat. They searched the area until 5 o'clock, when the search was abandoned. While the Aberdovey IRB...

At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...

ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.

capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...

Father and son stranded FOUR MINUTES from the time the honorary secretary was alerted, Hastings' 16ftD class inflatable lifeboat was launched, manned by Helmsman Chris Cooper and Crew Members Graham Furness and Steven Martin. It was 1604...

Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...

The full-rigged ship Maxwell, 1,800 tons, of Liverpool, left that port on the morning of the 19th July, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. She was towed by the steam-tug Great Western and, on arriving near the North-West...

ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON Dec. 2ND. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.

At 12.14 in the morning a message from the coastguard reached the lifeboat station of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that...