LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...

.—Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 16th March the N.N.E. wind became very squally, and increased to a gale, when three of the Bridlington Quay fishing-boats, which had gone off early in the morning, were off Hornsea. At about 11 A.M. the wind...

At 6 P.M. on the 22nd December a barge, the Beryl, of Faversham, showed flares for a pilot, but in the prevailing gale it was not safe for ;a pilot to proceed to her. As the weather was very bad, and had every appearance of becoming worse,...

Two life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation in 1958. One was the station at Ballycotton in County Cork ; the other was Hastings in Sussex.

The ceremony at Hastings took place on the 27th of July,...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Black- pool life-boat was searching for three youths who had drifted out to sea in an...

APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...

Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...

The RNLI's responsibilities demand medical expertise not only in emergency care – lifeboat crew and lifeguards are often first on scene – but also for the health of our staff and volunteers...