LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...

The great orange case search...Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges...

However, there was more than a little method to...

Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the Institution's chairman. The other members...

Four sailing boats A NEAR GALE WAS BLOWING from the north when, at 1055 on Thursday, September 2, information was received that a catamaran was burning a red flare off St Ives Harbour entrance.

Visibility was only moderate,...

first inflatables were introduced in 1962, particularly as regards floorboards and the construction and maintenance of the craft.

In 1968 the Institution commissioned the design of a fast rigid hull for inshore...

While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy broken sea, on the llth May, the barque Margarethe, of Borgo, Finland, bound from Fleetwood for Canada, stranded on Barnard's Wharf. The Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched...

Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock...

FOUR MEN AND TWO WOMEN DRIFTING Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 17th of May, 1947, a resident at Sandbay telephoned that a cabin cruiser was drifting and making distress signals in the...