LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 10.10 p.m. on igth June, 1966, the occupants of a small boat, adrift off South Stack lighthouse, were heard calling for help. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 10.28 in a light south westerly wind and a smooth...

It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.

He...

JANUARY 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. Fishing trawlers, an Admiralty trawler, and a steamer had been bombed and machine-gunned, but all were able to go on their way except a fishing trawler which another vessel towed into...

Swept into sea AN ANGLER SWEPT into the sea north of Filey Brigg was reported to the deputy launching authority of Filey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1222 on Sunday September 25, 1983. Nine minutes later the station's D class...

AUGUST 1ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.

An aeroplane’s dinghy had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards £10 18s. 6d..

Pier rescue attempt THE CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER of Brighton Palace Pier, Graham Sweetman, was in his office at the shore end of the pier with his part-time colleague Payman Akhaveissy, an Iranian student, at 1615 on the afternoon of Sunday...

Speedboat on Pye Sands • It was with very great interest that I read of the gallantry awards to members of the crew of Edian Courtauld for their successful rescue of a speedboat's complement on August 15, 1973 ('Lifeboat Services'...

Still at work I read with interest the account of the rescue off Moelfre on 26 August (THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1993 issue).

The MFV you referred to, which took in tow the second casualty, was Manx Voyager - the ex-Watson class...