LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 31ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 5.45 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a minesweeper was approaching, and needed a doctor for a case of suspected appendicitis. A light northeast wind was blowing, and the...

The Institution has received, as voluntary gifts, a great number of knitted woollen comforts of all kinds for its crews. It was thus possible to accumulate a large reserve of such comforts at Headquarters, and supplies have been sent to the...

RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.

This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...

• Wooden Boats and Men of Steel tells the story of Withernsea lifeboats from 1862 to 1913 when the station was closed and the lifeboat transferred to Easington. Paul Baker is very much involved with the present day Withernsea lifeboat...

In appreciation...

Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...

— On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel, one and a half miles S.E. of St. Mary's Island, was showing signals of distress. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell, and a...

At about 7 A.M. on the 19th October two young men started from Lynmouth with the intention of sailing to Porlock, but when off the Foreland the adverse wind and tide carried them about five miles out into the Channel. Here they got into...

WICKLOW.—A storm of terrific violence visited Wicklow and the district on the 26th February. The wind had been blowing from the S. and towards night it increased to hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and downpours of rain and...