LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...

Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...

Penlee, Cornwall.—At 6.25 on the night of the 27th of January, 1951, the Penzer Point coastguard telephoned that the commander of the cable- laying ship Ariel, half a mile off Newlyn Pier, was sick. Two doctors were on board. The coastguard...

Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment

Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...

LOSSIEMOUTH.—On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was...

A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.

AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...

Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1945 During the year life-boats were launched 497 times. Of these launches 118 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...

Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...