LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The local motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea early on the morning of the 5th December in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as it had been raining heavily since the previous night, the river was running...

Atlantic College, Glamorganshire.

At 2.30 p.m. on 28th October, 1965, while the two IRB's (Nos. 33 and 38) were on exercise, with four sailing dinghies and the Atlantic College boat Aphrodite, the breeze freshened. The...

Amble, Northumberland - In the early afternoon of 3Oth January, 1967, four fishing cobles were at sea when conditions at the harbour bar were worsening.

The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 2.16 p.m. in a...

Dover and Walmer, Kent. At 2.24 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Flandres, of Antwerp, had been in collision with the Liberian steamer Trader four miles south-east of the Goodwin Sands,...

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While HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh were touring Fife on July 1, Prince Philip went afloat in Anstruther lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley The Doctors, taking great interest in the carriage launch (above, left and right): in command of... - View image in PDF

A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF

Four local athletes from Cumbernauld Athletics and Shettleston Harriers, including a father and son, offered themselves for sponsorship in the Scottish People's Marathon, run in Glasgow on September 11, 1983. Between them they raised... - View image in PDF