LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Coverack, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 20th of September, 1954, a man reported that a rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor was in difficulties near Lowland Point. At 11.5 the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched...

On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.

was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...

A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...

JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service had gone out to the help of an aeroplane which had come down in the sea, had caught fire herself and had been burnt out, but her crew were rescued by the examination...

Non-members of the YLA are liable to capsize at sea. So are members of the YLA. But at least, when they go over, YLA members have the consolation of knowing they can await rescue by the R.N.L.I, with a clear... - View image in PDF