LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).

Turkey There were no services to British vessels.

There are 4 life...

Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...

PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...

How are we tackling the drowning problem around our coasts?

In 2012, we reached a crossroads in our mission to save lives at sea. We had the best possible kit, training and crew, yet there...

Eastbourne, Sussex. — During the afternoon of the 5th April, 1938, with a fresh west breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the motor yacht May Queen, of Lowestoft, bound from there to Littlehampton, was capsized about a mile off Eastbourne...

Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...

Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...

A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night

Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....