LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

During hazy weather on the 7th Decem- ber the passenger steamer Arna, of Bergen, bound from Bergen to the Tyne, stranded on the Boulmer " South Steel." At about 6.30 P.M. the vessel's lights were observed and the Life-boat...

VALENTIA, Co. KERRY.—On the morning of the 13th January the Life-boat Crosby Leonard was launched and proceeded to the barque Berna, of Drammen, bound from Jamaica for Havre with a cargo of logwood. The vessel, which was about a mile S. of...

Commemorative plate, being held by Alice Wright, chief clerk. North West District office, is one of an edition limited to 250 being sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Manchester's lifeboat appeal to fund a Rother lifeboat to be named... - View image in PDF

Very early on the 19th October the auxiliary yacht Ben Hiant, of Stornoway, pleasure cruising with four persons on board, was sheltering in Campbeltown Loch. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The weather was thick and...

Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...

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He's spent 26 years living on the UK's best-known street- but, this father and lifeboat station volunteer is as much about water as he is soap

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