LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the morning of the 23rd March the coxswain was told that the small local motor fishing boat Clarinda, with four men on board, had not returned with the rest of the fleet from the Ballantrae Banks. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a...

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1949, fishermen reported that the local motor fishing coble Margaret and James was overdue. She could not be seen from the shore and the weather was worsening. The life-boat...

Selsey, Sussex. At 7 a.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares off Hayling. At 7.22 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched. A gale* was blowing from the south-west, thesea was very rough and the tide was; ebbing. The...

Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...

Norman Croucher, who has two artificial legs, enthralled an audience of 200 people in Topsham recently when he spoke of his amazing climbing exploits.

Norman, who has climbed mountains over five miles high despite his... - View image in PDF

The Arun class Ralph and Bonella Farrant previously in the relief fleet and now on temporary station duty at Fenit - tows the motor cruiser Mayfly into Salcombe after she had broken down off Bolt Tail.

Photo Derek... - View image in PDF

On the 25th February the s.s. Eilandi, of London, while sheltering from a storm behind the south pier, and trying to repair her damaged steering gear, was driven across the harbour mouth and stranded on the Black Midden...

TWO LANDED FROM CAPSIZED RACING YACHT Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 2.50 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th of August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from a member of the public who had seen a red flare being burnt on board a...