LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

FRENCH TRAWLER AIDED St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. A doctor rang the coxswain at 10 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, stating that he had heard from the Penzance Port Medical Authority that a French trawler, Ketty et Michou, was steaming at full...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.

Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...

A Big Thank You from the Anniversary Project Manager So that's it. 1999 has come and gone and the 175th anniversary is now officially over. Only the Scots carried on with the celebrations right up to the official birthday of 4 March 2000...

COBLES ESCORTED Amble, Northumberland. At 12.55 p.m. on I9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two fishing cobles were due back at the harbour and as there was a rough sea asked if the life-boat would escort...

JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...

Launches 50. Lives rescued 152.

AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the...

Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...