LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tynemouth's Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner was called to the aid of the fishing vessel Kalisto which caught fire on 15 September 1990.

The two crew had jumped overboard and been airlifted ashore, but... - View image in PDF

COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...

Lives lost at Lulworth Cove Two teenage boys were swept off rocks at Lulworth Cove in Dorset on 3 November 2005. A third boy managed to get himself ashore and raise the alarm. Four lifeboats, Weymouth's relief Severn class Roger and Joy...

THE Crewe Photographic Society held a two-days exhibition in April. Two thousand people came to see it. No charge was made, but life-boat collecting boxes were placed in the exhibition.

The sum of £18 10,?. 4d. was...

In the midst of an ecological disaster, St Mary’s and Penlee volunteers helped keep 35 people safe.

The crude oil supertanker Torrey Canyon left Kuwait on 19 February 1967 for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her crew were...

Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard passed on by telephone a message that the motor fishing vessel Pride of Erin, of Belfast, was ashore in West Loch Tarbert.

She was...

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EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...