LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Above: The RNLI’s new training boat underway. - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

The Dutch tanker Liseta had been torpedoed, but the survivors of her crew were picked up by an escort vessel. A boat from the American steamer Ranci Vigo was found broken down, and was towed...

The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts

by John Blake
Review by Tim Corke

The history of Great Britain has been governed by the sea and maritime...

Tlie gardens of the former home of Lady Astor of Hever were opened to the public for the first time since 1961 in April to raise funds for Cemaes Bay branch. Cestyll Ornamental Gardens at Cemlyn, Anglesey, are now owned by the Central... - View image in PDF

SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on fages 88, 91, 93, the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1967, to February, 1968, inclusive: Abersoch,...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November.

1956, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched to escort the motor fishing cobles Betty and Rosemary to harbour in very bad...