LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
Shamrock
DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. On the 12th January, at 5.30 P.M., the fishing lugger Shamrock, of Peel, arrived at Ballinacourty and anchored about a hundred yards from the fishery pier. At about 8.30 one of her anchors parted and the vessel...
First Severn on Station
The first of the RNLI's new 25-knot Severn class lifeboats has entered service at Harwich in Essex.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Drilling Rig
Invergordon lifeboat in drilling rig rescueThe White Rose of Yorkshire, Invergordon's Waveney class lifeboat, was involved in the rescue of two survivors who fell from a semi-submersible exploration drilling rig on 31 January 1992 in...
Blacktail
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 9.30 on the night of the 9th Decem- ber, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a director of the Boston Sea Fishing Company that the skipper of their trawler Blacktail had...
Back from Her First Service
The new Flamborough motor life-boat. (See page 415.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(L to R) Adrian Moore Richard Lane (Aged 14) and Nigel Rankin (Aged 16) of Newmarket Are Already Confirmed Lifeboat Supporters With School Assemblies a Spons
(1. to r.) Adrian Moore, Richard Lane (aged 14) and Nigel Rankin (aged 16) of Newmarket are already confirmed lifeboat supporters.
With school assemblies, a sponsored walk, a jumble sale and their flag day collections they... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Devotion
Anstruther, Fifeshire, and Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 7.34 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary at Anstruther that the fishing boat Devotion of Kirkcaldy was on fire about a mile and...
Seaspray and Whisky
Seaspray and Whisky
by Norman Freeman
Review by Sam Barnes
Though I’m a fan of books with a maritime theme I didn’t quite know what to expect from Seaspray and Whisky. It is based on...
Category: Articles
Maria W.
PILOT TAKEN TO DUTCH VESSEL IN NEAR GALE Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, 1962, the pilot at Portmadoc rang up the coxswain to say that a coaster had anchored outside the Portmadoc...