LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JUNE 24TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.50 in the evening a message came to Douglas that the motor boat Margaret was in distress in the direction of Laxey, and at 8 P.M. the motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched. A...

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EAST AND WEST COWCS ISLE OF WIGHT Wood and Steel Boat Building Completion of Glass Fibre Hulls Refitting and Storage Contractors to: R.N.L.I., Trinity House, Ministry of Defence and Private...

BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.

Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...

Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...

35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...

SE P T E M B E R 2 8 T H . - F I L E Y , Y O R K - SHIRE. The fishing fleet, had put to sea as usual. The northerly wind was increasing; the sea was getting rough ; three of the boats turned back ; and at 9.20 in the morning the motor...

PORTHCAWL.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat Speedwell was informed by the pilot on watch, on the 7th April, that a vessel was running for the shore in a sinking condition. At 6.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, and proceeded, in a moderate N.N...

A DANGEROUS HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of December, 1947, word was received that local fishing cobles and other boats were coming in. The tide was ebbing, a light easterly breeze was blowing and...