LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Early on the morning of the 14th September the coxswain received a telephone message from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress east of the look-out. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and it was...

Arbroath's Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape - seen here after her naming ceremony in 1994 - is a good example of the way in which a number of smaller legacies can be grouped together. 13 legacies, with an average value of £28.000 were... - View image in PDF

The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.

Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...

• Now that This is Rough Weather Sailing has been written by Erroll Bruce, everyone thinking of going offshore, cruising or racing, should read it. Those whose interest is purely in the work of the rescue services should read it, too, for it...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...

While sheltering in Ballycotton Bay on the morning of 26th March, the steam trawler Macaw, of Milford Haven, was driven ashore on the Black Rocks by a strong S.W. breeze with a rough sea and a heavy ground swell. Information that she was in...

Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the evening of the 10th June, 1938, news was received through the Mersey Dock Board that a vessel was ashore on the Burbo Bank. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford I,...