LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...

Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...

• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...

The schooner Star, of St. Agnes, in attempting to come into Hayle, during a strong wind from the N.E. and a heavy sea, on, the 8th December, struck and grounded west of the bar. The Life-boat Isis quickly proceeded to her, and took off her...

Two fishing-cobles, with three men in each, were observed making for this harbour at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April.

A strong E. gale had suddenly sprung up, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and the boats were in great danger...

PORTMADOC.—At 3 P.M. on the 14th October, during stormy weather, the schooner Breton, of Fowey, was observed to be showing a signal of distress. The Life-boat John Ashbury was immediately manned, and by the time she was afloat the vessel had...

WINTERTON. — The ketch Zephyr, of Boston, laden with logwood from London for Goole, was sighted, with foremast broken, while a strong E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 17th April. The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched...