LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fowey, Cornwall - At 9.10 a.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a yacht was thought to have capsized between Looe and Polperro.

The life-boat Deneys Reitz proceeded at 9.20 in a strong westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was one...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

To WILLIAM JOHNSTON, on his retirement, after serving 15f years as Coxswain of the Stronmess Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certifi- cate of Service, and a Pension ; also a special gratuity of £20 on account of ill- health, his illness...

[The following article appeared in the Lytham St. Annes Express on the 12th of March. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.] COULD you do what Lytham life-boat- men do when they are called out on an emergency? Could you...

Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...

JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.

the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...

Looking at lifeboats...

the WAVENEY class The first in a series of profiles of lifeboat classes The Waveney was the first of the RNLI's classes of 'fast lifeboat' and originated as a design operated by the US...

Butaseis Together with countless people throughout Torbay, I was extremely concerned over the presence of the liquid gas tanker Butaseis. I have been advised of the outstanding action taken by the coxswain and crew of the lifeboat in going...