LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Intrepid yachtsman and survivor, Tony Bullimore who hit the headlines in January when he was rescued by the Australian Navy after spending five days in the Southern Ocean in his overturned yacht, signs up to Offshore at the Birmingham Boat... - View image in PDF

ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...

OF all the calamities to which the human race is liable, unless it be that of unceasing pain, there is perhaps none which we each of us dread so much in our own persons, or sympathize with so greatly when beheld in others, as loss of sight....

Hythe, Kent.—At 10.57 A.M. on the 3rd August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a man had put off from Sandgate in a small pulling boat at 9 A.M. for an hour. He had not returned.

It was assumed that he could not get back....

Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1956, the second coxswain reported that he had seen a sailing boat capsize about a mile and a half from Castle Point. The life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.18 on the night of the 18th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred between the coaster Denbigh Coast and the s.s. Irish Maple one mile east of the Formby...

ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...

When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …

You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...