LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...

In a dense fog on the afternoon of the 23rd June the Red Star liner Gothland, from Montreal to Rotterdam, with passengers and a cargo of wheat, ran ashore on the Crim Rocks. Information of the casualty was at once transmitted by means of...

Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January the steam trawler Andri, of Eskifjordur, Iceland, carrying a crew of twenty-five, and bound with fish for Grimsby, ran ashore at Kelder Steel, Kettleness. A moderate S.E....

On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...

Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—30th January. Following a report that the lights of a vessel under observation had disappeared, a search was made, but nothing could be found.

—Rewards : Port St. Mary, £33 5s...

HELP FOR SICK MAN At 9 p.m. on the same day the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel La Colina would be arriving off Mounts Bay at 11 o'clock, bringing a sick man on board who needed hospital treatment....

Hoylake's Rother class lifeboat Mary Gabriel stands by the coaster Nanna as a fire-tug fights the fire which led to the evacuation of her eight-man crew. - View image in PDF

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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN On the 20th November, 1941, the Ramsey life-boat rescued the crew of thirteen of the steam trawler Strathairlie, of Aberdeen.

COXSWAIN JOHN COMISH was awarded the bronze medal..