LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DUTCH CREW AIDED At 8.35 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, Valentia radio station told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Karel had grounded on Mutton Island, near Galway docks. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...

TANKER ON FIRE Eastbourne and Newhaven, Sussex.

At 8.5 a.m. on 2yth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Eastbourne and Newhaven lifeboat stations that the Liberian tanker Otto N. Miller of...

100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1889 issue THE LIFE-BOAT HOUSE The boats of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under...

EARLY SUMMER began with several inshore lifeboat ceremonies. On Saturday, May 14, a number of readers of the Birmingham Evening Mail, together with members of Birmingham branch committee, travelled to Exmouth, South Devon, for the handing...

Broken adrift THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Thurso was informed by Wick Coastguard at 2105 on Tuesday November 16 1982, that the trawler Arctic Crusader had broken adrift in Scrabster Harbour, close by the lifeboat station, and he was...

Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk carrier Sugar Producer was...

IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.

In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...

October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of Sheerness that red...