LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Chourn
Lerwick, Shetland*. — Early on the morning of the 31st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a trawler was ashore on the island of Bressay. A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and showers of sleet. The motor life-boat Lady Jane...
A Rowing Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. About two in the afternoon, four boys put out duck-shooting in a rowing boat.
By seven o’clock they had not returned. The night was very dark, and a strong southwesterly breeze was...
Elaine
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coxswain saw a motor boat in difficulties two and a half miles north- west-by-west of Moelfre Island. At 12.45 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a...
Phoenix 194
OCTOBER 18TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A south-westerly gale was blowing up the Bristol Channel, with the heaviest seas that had been seen for several years, when at 3.45 in the afternoon the naval officer-in-charge reported that phoenix 194 -...
Sail
Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray/Format Prior to the Annual Presentation of Awards on 19 May, the six Bronze Medallists line up aboard the Mersey class Marine Engineer for the photocall on the Thames.
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Category: Photographs
Berna
VALENTIA, Co. KERRY.—On the morning of the 13th January the Life-boat Crosby Leonard was launched and proceeded to the barque Berna, of Drammen, bound from Jamaica for Havre with a cargo of logwood. The vessel, which was about a mile S. of...
A Fishing Boat (1)
FISHING BOAT BURNS FLARES Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.10 on the evening of Sunday the 15th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the coastguard and the police that distress flares had been seen three and a half miles south-east of the...
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Kaye
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.44 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress seven miles south-east-by-south of Dungeness. At 3.5 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...