LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...

(Right) Whitby's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield is pictured ready for her hull inspection and scrub down at the town's Endeavour Wharf. The operation took some three hours, but the lifeboat remained operational as she could... - View image in PDF

On the 30th January the s.s. Cambalu, of Liverpool, ran aground between Welcombe and Knapps Head, on the Cornish coast, in a dense fog.

She was bound, light, from Plymouth to Mumbles, and carried a crew of...

LINER GROUNDED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.10 a.m. on 23td May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the passenger liner Venus of Bergen had gone aground off the Herd Sand Groyne, but no help had been requested. The life...

INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF COLLIER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.25 on the morning of the 11th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Grimsby trawler Yesso, which was then ten miles north...

Royal Humane Society's Instructions.

SEND QUICKLY FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.

Cautims.

1. Lose no time.

3. Avoid all rough usage.

3. Never hold up...

Sick man transported to mainland In the early hours of 21 September 1991, Oban's Brede class lifeboat Nottinghamshire was called on to transfer a sick man from Lochaline to Oban hospital.

Following a request at 0200...

Part two of our definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes. This issue we bring you the inshore fleet and the Institution's only intermediate class… Brede Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class...