LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Michael Gray, pictured meeting crew and station personnel at Cullercoats lifeboat station shortly before completing his sponsored cycle ride, cycled from Surbiton, Surrey, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne last September, raising £189 on behalf of... - View image in PDF

Courtown Sailing Club (CSC) member Paddy Mac Namara has raised €1,760 for the RNLI. Paddy let his hair grow for a year and then had it all shaved off – branding his event a Buzzcut for the Boats. The very generous donations came from members...

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...

Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...

High and dry Tobermory's Elizabeth Fairtie Ramsey launched three times between 620am and 5pm on 10 March 2006 to a 16m fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).

When the...

IN an account of the loss of the ship St. Abbs, on the coast of Madagascar, on the 15th of June, 1855, when 22 persons un- fortunately perished, it is recorded that " a seaman saved himself by tying an empty tin oil-can to his back,...

(Right) As an honorary member of Beaumaris lifeboat crew Sir Jimmy Savill QBE has always been a friend to the RNLI and when Storm Force was first introduced he was quick to support the junior club by writing a message in an early issue of... - View image in PDF

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