LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aground on the bar ON THE EVENING OF Wednesday July 11, 1984, a yacht, in difficulties in the estuary of the River Ribble, fired a red flare. She could be seen by the auxiliary coastguard at Lytham at anchor, and pounding in heavy...

A gale from S.S.E. sprang up with exceptional suddenness shortly before .5 A.M. on the 22nd January. Several of the local fish- ing boats were off fishing, and three were taken into safety by the Life-boat Queensbury. The Coxswain was...

RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.

At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...

RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...

JANUARY 4TH. - RUNSWICK, YORK.

SHIRE. The motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched at 1 P.M in an E.S.E. wind with a heavy sea, as the Staithes fishing fleet was out and there would be considerable...

HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your Once you've paid for your plan, by single payment or family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, flexible instalments, your family or estate will never be it's not because...

ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...

In February 1858, the oar-powered Southwold lifeboat capsized in heavy surf. The 15 crew wearing lifebelts were all saved but records show ‘three unfortunate gentlemen who had … neglected to put on lifebelts, lost their lives’. Technology...