LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Caister, and Gt. Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of the Caister and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat stations that a U.S.A.F. Phantom aircraft had...

Whitby's D Class inflatable on the sen/ice referred to by Nick Botham, when she ferried a party of 27 school children and three teachers - who had been cut off by the tide - out to the station's 44ft Waveney.

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Anstruther, Fife - At 3.12 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, news was received that a yacht had been seen flying distress signals off Fifeness. The life-boat The Doctors was launched at 3.30 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...

JAN. 25TH. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

During the afternoon two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was...

THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER celebrates 10 years of Ocean crossing 1969/70 36ft. Sloop, California to U.K. and back 1980 1st, 2nd, 3rd TRANSPAC (Transpacific Single-handed Race) Wind, water and solar battery chargers available LOCAT The...

For services to maritime safety, the following have been awarded the MBE in HM The Queen’s New Year Honours:

Mr Roy Barker, Vice-Chairman, Zetland museum; Mrs Jean Frost, Manager, Rhyl lifeboat souvenir shop; Mr Aran...

OCTOBER 12TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.

At 6.10 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a small steamer was flashing an S.O.S., and the motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 6.37. A fresh...