LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael F. Hardy, of East- bourne.
He was second-coxswain from 1919 to 1924, and since then he has been coxswain, so that he has now been an officer of the life-boat for nearly...
Category: Articles
The Faroese Motor Vessel Ternan
Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 4.52 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a message from the Thorshavn radio station that the Faroese motor vessel Ternan needed help twelve miles in an easterly direc- tion from Muckle...
Through the worst
Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?
Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...
Category: Articles
The Shrimping Boat Sonia
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 28th of January, 1948, local boat- men reported that the shrimping boat.
Sonia, with a crew of three, was two hours overdue. She had put out at three in the morning and was...