LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...

Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...

Saved yacht BEAUMARIS HONORARY SECRETARY was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 0943 on Saturday, July 23, 1977, that the skipper of Rossekop, on passage from Glasson Dock to Amsterdam and now 20 miles north east of Point Lynas, was injured...

THE LIFE-BOAT Christmas card and the calendar for 1939 will have the above picture reproduced on them in colours.

The picture shows a modern motor life-boat of the Watson type being launched down a slipway. It has been...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.30 p.m. on 20th April, 1968, the Dun Laoghaire lighthouse keeper told the honorary secretary that a man who had set out for Holyheadin an aluminium tub was in difficulties one cable east of the east pier...

FEBRUARY 9TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.

An R.A.F. machine had come down in the sea, but a steamer picked up one man from her. - Rewards, £6 13s..

(right) Noisy and spectacular - one of the Coastguard's helicopters arrived each day to give spectators a close-up of transfers to and from an Atlantic off the depot quay.. - View image in PDF

XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.

L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.

THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...