LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...

IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.

To the three services to this...

A raffle prize with a difference: MV Oahu, or at least the master of this ship, Captain Dennis Smith, decided, as part of his ship's Christmas and New Year celebrations at sea, to raffle his job for the day. The raffle raised £175... - View image in PDF

HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...

THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...

Rosslare, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1956, the Carne Coast Life-Saving Service rang up to say that the fishing boat Tern was out of control near Splough Rock and was drifting sea- wards. The...

As announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Committee of Management decided in May that every Life-boat Station, on the completion of a hundred years, should be presented with a Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...