LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.

Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...

Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...

Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...

APRIL 29TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Hurricane fighter aeroplane had crashed at the mouth of the Hanford Water, but when she was found she was almost submerged and the pilot was dead. - Rewards, £4 6s..

SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

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SE P T E M B E R 2 0 T H . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. An R.A.F. officer had been drowned bathing and the police asked that his body, which could be seen, might be recovered, but it floated into a creek inaccessible to the life-boat and was...

DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.

Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...