LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crystal Clean
Prawn trawler Crystal Star started taking on water in the Irish Sea on 18 March and lifeboats from Kilkeel (B class Frank William Walton) and Port St Mary (Trent class Gough Ritchie II) were launched to her aid.
Kilkeel...
Category: Articles
Isobel and Rita
At 11.25 A.M.
on the 26th November, during a whole S.S.W. gale, a message was received reporting that the fishing-coble Isabel and Rita, of Filey, was in distress about two miles from Filey Brigg. The Life* boat Holton...
Albas (1)
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
None (2)
Aberdovey, Merionethshire. At 9.15 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the police reported that three wildfowlers were stranded on the south bank of the estuary.
At 9.30 the IRB launched on an ebbing tide in a south easterly gale...
Your Letters
The casualty's view of a rescue ... and thanks to the crew Having read the discussion 'Men behind the medals' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat, I wanted to comment on some of the points as seen through the eyes of a...
Category: Correspondence
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
Viking Deeps
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...
Sweden: a E Appelberg the 199M Rescue Cruiser Stationed at Gryt Swedish Rescue Craft Often Have to Work In Severe Ice
Sweden: A. E. Appelberg, the 19.9m rescue cruiser stationed at Gryt. Swedish rescue craft often have to work in severe ice.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Several Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 6th January, but soon after 7 A.M. the wind veered to N.E. and increased to a strong gale. Ten of the cobles were sufficiently near home to gain a shelter, but three were...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...