LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Berry Head coastguard reported by telephone at 10.25 P.M. on the 3rd August that a small sailing yacht was close to the Outer Cod Rock, on which one of the crew of two had landed before dusk.

Flashes were seen from the...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.55 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the pilot launch, which was sheltering in Totland bay, had reported that a small yacht needed help. The pilot...

At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...

Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 5.16 p.m.

on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a ship's telephone call from the master of the motor vessel Lochard, who had seen flares being fired half a mile south-west of...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. At 6.15 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at the request of the naval authorities to go to a vessel ten miles east of Aberdeen. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, the sea was...

As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...

What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...