LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...

Pages 20-21: A complex training exercise underway, calling on the skills and fitness of all the crew Photo: Mark Passmore. - View image in PDF

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...

Coxswain Bert Baker, of Bembridge, hands over to his successor, Geoffrey Wade, the youngest coxswain in the Service. - View image in PDF

Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 2.48 p.m. on 8th April, 1967, information was received that a member of the crew of the commercial radio vessel Comet was seriously injured and required medicalassistance. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary...

On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...