LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...

'On the 31st August the sloop Helen, of Stornoway, bound from Cullen to the Moray Firth, was obliged to come to an anchor, during a gale at N.W., in the bay to the east of the small fishing harbour of Lossiemouth.

In...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 6.56 on the evening of the 28th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares five miles north-east of Sizewell.

At 7.10 the life-boat The...

Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...

PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...

At 4.45 A.M. on the 5th December informa- tion was received that the Sunk Light- vessel was firing signals for assistance to be sent to a vessel which was on the West Rocks. The crew of the Motor Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were promptly...

At 1.10 P.M. on the 12th May, a report was received from the Coastguard that a barge was ashore on the Gunfleet Sands.

The Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was sent to her assistance and found that she was in a very dangerous...

COPIES of the following circular, relative to the proper management of boats when running to the shore before a heavy broken sea, have been forwarded to the branches of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, with the view to its being...