LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tragic search for missing girlSunderland's Watson class lifeboat William Myers and Sara Jane Myers launched at 1630 on 10 February 1990 following an alert from Tyne Tees Coastguard that a girl had been swept off the promenade at Seaburn,...

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

On the 19th Sep- tember, the fishing-boat Active, of Cellar- dyke, N.B., was observed in distress during a strong E.N.E. wind and in a heavy sea, off Anstruther. The Admiral FitzRoy life- boat put out and brought the boat and her crew of 4...

NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—Daring a fresh gale from the N.E. on the 21st November, the Nelson Life-boat was launched, and brought into port the disabled brigantine Albert, of Carlisle, and her crew of 5 men..

CULLERCOATS. — The Life - boat Cooperator No. I was launched at 11.30 A.M. and convoyed into harbour about twenty-five fishing-cobles, it being dangerous for the boats to attempt to cross the bar unattended, as a heavy sea was breaking on it...

A stone wliich was built into the old life-boat house at Cambois (Northumberland). This house, now destroyed, was erected in 1854, at the cost of Sir Matthew Ridley, Bt., who also presented the site. It was described at the time as " a... - View image in PDF