LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—About five o'clock in the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1949, the life-boat William and Clara Ryland was returning to her station after overhaul at Cowes when she saw distress signals from the motor yacht...

HAD BROKEN DOWN At 3.35 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a white cabin cruiser had fired red flares but did not appear to be in danger. It was one hour before low water with a rough sea and a...

Dunbar, East Lothian - At 6.39 p.m.

on 22nd March, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Seton Queen was reported to be running short of fuel. She had been fishing between Barr Rock and May Island and was overdue. This had been...

FEBRUARY 21ST. - CROMARTY. At 6.30 in the evening a message was received at the post office that the motor boat Enterprise, of Cromarty, which carries mails and goods between Cromarty and Invergordon, was in danger of being driven ashore...

SEPTEMBER 6TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.41 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small pulling boat was in difficulties 2 1/2 miles S.E. from Berwick Pier, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at...

Beaumaris

Menai boat run sets new record

Now in its 10th year, East Cheshire Sub-Aqua Club’s Menai Boat Run had a record turnout in March for its weekend of diving and fun – with 278 divers and 35 boats...

COXSWAIN JOHN T. SWAN, of Lowes- toft, one of the most distinguished of English life-boatmen, died on 20th February, at the age of eighty-three.

He was coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat from 1911 to 1924, when he retired...

HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.

The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...