LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Iba, to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—Very early on the morning of the 21st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel in Ramsey bay, about five miles E.N.E. from Queen's Pier, was burning flares. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very...

While the fishing cobles were I out on the 3rd April the S.E. breeze increased and the sea became very heavy. Two cobles nearly foundered i when coming in, and as it was feared that the remainder would come to grief, the Life...

TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...

Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...

SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...

Coxswain Robert Cross, who had the remarkable distinction of twice winning the gold medal for gallantry, died at the age of 88 on I4th June, 1964. He was former coxswain of the Humber life-boat.

He joined the life-boat crew...

Jack-up barge AN 'ADVISE LAUNCH' from HM Coastguard was received by the honorary secretary of Falmouth lifeboat station at 2128 on Monday, November 28, 1977, to take off the six-man crew of the jack-up barge Mer d'Iroise, in tow...