LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The crab boat Mistletoe, of Clovelly, went off to haul the pots in the early morning of the 4th May, and when returning was overtaken by a gale. Men went to see if the boat could be seen, but it was not until 2 P.M. that it was reported that...

Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.

The four survivors...

IN 1894 the Committee of Management decided to take over control, upkeep and maintenance of ail the Life-boat stations in Liverpool Bay which had hitherto been under the management of the Mersey Dock Board, the latter corporation undertaking...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...

Skilful boat handling and teamwork played a major role in this rescue but, for New Brighton Helmsman Mark Bland, decision making was the difficult part. Here's Mark's personal account While working at my office at Safe Water Training...

• Dr Robert Haworth, the author of First Aid for Yachtsmen (Adlard Coles, £3.95), is not only the honorary medical adviser to the RNLI's station at Barmouth, but he is also an active member of the ILB crew, and in that capacity was...

BRIGADIER R. J. P. WYATT, M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P., District Organising Secre- tary for the South-East of England from August 1927 to December 1952, died on the 22nd of October, 1954.

Brigadier Wyatt was educated at...

My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.

I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...