LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COASTER REFLOATED Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 2.35 a.m. on nth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a coaster appeared to be in a dangerous position to the south of the harbour. The coxswain investigated and found...

Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st October, 1954 - 78,940 Notes of the Quarter THE cold, wet summer of 1954 was a most...

TWO CHILDREN ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 24th November, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that there were two sick children who needed hospital treatment. One had appendicitis and the other had a dangerous cut on his leg. As no...

At 2.55 p.m. on 26th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unknown vessel was seen apparently broken down off Bognor Regis. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 3.25 in a moderate north-easterly...

THE Rev. Thomas Stanley Treanor, M.A., came from the parish of Achill, on the west coast of Ireland, and in July, 1878, was appointed chaplain to the Missions to Seamen for Deal and the Downs. A scholar and author, Treanor could read Greek...

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This May will see the return of Mayday, our big yellow welly-themed fundraising event

An annual celebration of brave lifesavers around our coasts, Mayday brings together...

Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.

This simple fact is causing more skippers to choose CAT Marine...