LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

— About 7 P.M. on the evening of the llth January a signal of distress was seen from a vessel at anchor in Caldy Road.

There was a moderate to strong south westerly gale at the time accompanied by a heavy ground sea and the...

The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.

For twenty years, from 1911 to...

Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...

speed into a rough sea. She arrived alongside the casualty, the converted motor fishing vessel Kathmar with a crew of three aboard, at 1350. Kathmar had been on passage from the Tyne to Londonderry when her engine had broken down. A line was...

THE following account of a shipwreck on our coast, and a gallant rescue by a Life-boat, has been taken from a new work,' Under one Hoof/ * by Mr. JAMBS PAYN, the well-known author, whose genius is determined to leave some marks on our...

With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.

Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: JUNE 1994 Miss Sheila Barrie, who together with her late sister Moira jointly funded the D class lifeboat Charlie B formerly stationed at Tenby.

Jack Downing, president of...

AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Cromarty life-boat station, Mr. James Cameron, learnt from the coastguard that the coaster Servus of Leith needed help nine and a half miles south-by-east...