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Stromness On the afternoon of Thursday August 22, 1985, morning rain had given way to sunshine and the earlier buzz of conversation blending with music from the Salvation Army Band and the movement of people around Stromness harbour was...

Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...

THE accompanying graphic narrative of a fearful storm and a noble rescue in mid-Atlantic appeared some months ago in the Daily Telegraph under the signature of " Seafarer." No one can read this in- teresting account without feeling...

Port Isaac's D class inflatable anchors and veers down on the wreckage of Maria Asumpta during the search for survivors. Sadly only wreckage was found. Photo John Beckett Photography. - View image in PDF

Still at work I read with interest the account of the rescue off Moelfre on 26 August (THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1993 issue).

The MFV you referred to, which took in tow the second casualty, was Manx Voyager - the ex-Watson class...

Jan. 13.—Voted 22. each to the fonr sur- vivors of the crew of the Margate beachmon's surf boat Friend of aU Nations, which was capsized, with, the loss of nine of her crew while on her way to a distressed vessel on the 2nd December last...

February Meeting.

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...