LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT day in Greater London was held on 15th May. Among those who helped with the appeal were the Lady Mayoress, who collected at the Mansion House, the Mayoress of West- minster, who collected in Trafalgar Square, and the Mayors of...

Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...

JANUARY 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 11.15 A.M. several loud explosions were heard, which proved to be delayed action mines. At the same time the Admiralty salvage tug St. Syrus struck a mine when passing the Boom Gateway, and started...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.

The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...

EARLY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.

About seven in the morning the wind shifted, and by 9.30 it was blowing...

The ketch Effort, of Southampton, stranded on the Shingle Bank during a N.E. gale, on the 22nd January, and the heavy seas made a clean breach over her. At 5.30 P.M. the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to. the as-...

The Motor Life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 5.45 P.M. on 6th April, in a moderate W. gale with a rough sea and rain, as the Coastguard had reported that the steam trawler River Kent was in distress and drifting off tie Mull of...

Early on the morning of the 10th March three local motor fishing cobles put to sea to haul crab pots. The wind was squally from the S.E., and the sea was rough. The weather continued to grow worse, with heavy rain showers. At 10.30 A.M. the...