LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 2.50 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea seven miles north-north-west of Portpatrick.

The life-boat Edward Z....

Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...

Yacht ablaze AT 2225 ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday September 8, 1984, Clyde coastguard reported a yacht aground, north of Hunterston power station. Three minutes later the relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, William Yeo, ontemporary...

ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Selsey, Sussex.—At 2.35 in the after- noon of the 20th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress between the eastern entrance to Chichester Harbour and Wittering Beach. A moderate south-westerly breeze...

Thanks son - Al Murray (right! hands Ingram the £5.000 cheque for the RNU.. - View image in PDF

At 11.15 A.M. on the 4th January a moderate north gale was blowing, with a heavy breaking sea. As the local motor fishing cobles Quest and Imperialist were at sea, the No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched. She met...

Rescue of a French Crew at Barry Dock.

ON the morning of 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was on her way from Brest to Swansea with a cargo of onions. A strong gale from the W.N.W. was blowing, with...

BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.

Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...