LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea

Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—-A telephone message was received from the coastguard about 1.30 P.M. on the 18th April stating that a vessel was ashore half-a-mile south of the watch-house. In the absence of the Coxswain, the Assistant Coxswain...

Barrow, Lancashire - At 3 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, it was learnt that the converted life-boat Gamecock was overdue.

The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 3.25 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...

A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...

The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).

• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...

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JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...

Windsurfer saved BRONZE MEDAL IN A SOUTHERLY GALE FORCE 8, gUSting tO severe gale force 9, a windsurfer was in trouble in the sea off Croyde. It was 1257 on Sunday December 1, 1985, when Hartland Coastguard alerted Appledore lifeboat station...