LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BURNHAM.—The ketch Eliza, of Ljdney, was sailing up the river on the 2nd October, when owing to the state of the weather—a moderate gale blowing from the W.N.W. with strong gusts of wind and a heavy sea—her master considered safer to anchor....

Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.20 on the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that attempts were being made to refloat the trawler Sethon, of Fleetwood, which had gone aground fifteen days earlier in the Sound of...

New Quay’s Mersey and D class lifeboats were requested to launch at 3.45pm on 1 February after reports that a parachutist, jumping from 150m cliffs, had crashed.

The lifeboats searched the area between the Old Lookout and...

MAY 25TH. - CAISTER, AND, GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.

At 12.20 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard at Caister, and later it was learnt that the trawler Charles Boyes, engaged in Admiralty service, had been mined...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided •with a carnage, oa which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH

Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...

RHYL.—On the 8th November, at about 3 P.M., the Jane Dalton Life-boat proceeded to the aid of the sloop Haven, of Liverpool, which had lost her mainsail, and, becoming unmanageable, had been driven ashore at Plastirion Point. The...

Recently my wife and I had the privilege of taking the Norwegian coastal voyage - a round trip from Bergen to Kirknes, near the Russian border with Norway, and back. This was a truly wonderful experience and one that I could recommend to... - View image in PDF