LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...

• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...

Left to right : Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan, Admiral Sir William Slayter; ex-Coxswain Robert Cross. - View image in PDF

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Six Medals for Gallantry WEST KIRBY, CHESHIRE On the 6th February, 1943, two men in a small boat were rescued.

MR. BENJAMIN S. ARMITAGE was awarded the bronze medal.

MR. HERBERT JONES, coxswain of the...

Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.

(above and near right} The lifeboat manoeuvres alongside Supenramp as she pounds on the rocks in a Force 7. - View image in PDF

Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...

BULL BAY.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th May, a stiff breeze blowing from the E., the Guion Company's steamer Dakota, bound from Liverpool to New Tork, was reported to be ashore close in under the cliffs, inside the East Mouse. This vessel...