LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Boulmer, Northumberland - At 5.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties near the reef. At 5.39 the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched in a light easterly breeze and a moderate...

Cold and foggy weather in Humberside failed to deter supporters from Epworth ladies' guild's third threshing day in late December, 1984.

The event, inspired by a desire to preserve old farming methods, was hosted by... - View image in PDF

On the night of the 31st Dec, last the brigantine tfuggtt, of Bideford, was driven from her anchors, and stranded on the " Doomed " bar, in Padstow harbour, a Heavy westerly gale blowing at the time. The crew, five in number,- took...

RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—The smack Dinas, of and from Carnarvon for Ehosneigir, in ballast, with a crew of two men, was driven on the rocks in a heavy seaand a moderate S.S.W. wind on the 13th October. Six men put off in a shoreboat to her...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.57 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, a yacht, in a position three miles south east of the Needles, was seen firing red flares. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded at 9.18 on a flooding tide. There was a...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.8 p.m. on 2ist July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a fishing vessel was in danger of going on to the rocks at Poolbeg.

The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 6.20 in a...

Norman Salvesen was involved in a less hazardous, but nonetheless demanding, tow on 7 April this year when she successfully brought the 450-ton cargo vessel Eilean Mo Grhidh to safety after her engines had failed and the tide was sweeping...

THE Institution has produced its first life-boat of the larger class, with a cabin and shelter for the crew and survivors, which incorporates the self-righting principle. This is a 48-foot 6-inch life- boat designed by Mr. R. A. Oakley,...