LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Enthusiastic golfers in Wales raised £2,500 towards an inshore lifeboat at Flint.

Heavy showers were not enough to dampen the spirits of the 20 teams competing at Northop country park. The whole event, organised by... - View image in PDF

Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...

TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...

Torbay, Devon.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the local Lloyds agent rang up to say that the motor vessel Wolfsburg, of Hamburg, had an injured man on board and would arrive at Torbay at eleven...

UGHTVESSEL'S MASTER TAKEN ASHORE TO HOSPITAL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

At 7.57 on the evening of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the master of the Smith's Knoll...

The new boat, presented by the Free- masons of "Warwickshire, and named the Lady Leigh, soon inaugurated its mission of mercy, it having been called out on service on the evening of Sunday the 10th Nov. The brig Palestine, of Whitby,...

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CRAB BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, the fisheries officer informed the honorary secretary that a crab boat from West Runton was in difficulties off the...

Two saved from sinking fishing boat Cullercoat's Atlantic was called out to the fishing boat Cormorant when she began taking water about two miles to the east of the station on 31 March 1996.

It took less than five... - View image in PDF