LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.

S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...

Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station made a wireless appeal for the life-boat service in the "Weeks Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C.

on 2ist. April. There were over 11,000 replies. The gifts...

Arbroath’s Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape launched at 9.45pm on 26 November 2010, to go to the aid of a fishing boat in difficulty in 6m seas and force 8 winds. If the vessel had maintained her course, she would have gone aground on Gaa...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...

Aground in gully THE DUTY ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER at St Peter Port, who is a deputy launching authority (DLA) of the lifeboat station, was informed by the Signal Station at 0428 on Tuesday October 11, 1983, that the French yacht Wild Rocket...

A Gallant Service off Folkestone.

ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...

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Almost 2,000 vessels registered to circumnavigate the Isle of Wight in this year’s Round the Island Race on 25 June. Force 6–7 winds and swells of up to 3m meant a busy day for five lifeboat crews, with 23 incidents in all. Cowes’s B class...