LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...

When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …

Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...

The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...

BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.

wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and...

As the prevention of shipwreck is of equal importance with the saving of life after the wreck has taken place, it becomes the duty of the Life-Boat Journal, from time to time, to give notice to the mariner of any newly- discovered or...

ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...

No less than 74 people took to the stage to accept honorary awards at the afternoon ceremony. ‘They all give generously of their time – some as station personnel, others as officials and members of branches and guilds,’ said Paul...

Bitter sweet home-coming In September of last year my boyfriend and I were returning home after cruising abroad for almost two years. Unfortunately we were in collision with another vessel (I need not go into the details of the incident...