LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour

Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...

PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...

Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe

Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...

Volunteers in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, are running a trial RNLI lifeboat station following the closure of the independent lifeboat service in the town. The crew took part in full RNLI training before the lifeboat went operational in the...

NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...

DECEMBER 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 3.11 A.M. the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the Sound of Islay. The weather was fine, with a light S.W. wind and a calm sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched...

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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.30 A.M. on the 2nd December it was learned that three motor fishing vessels were expected to return. There was a strong, broken sea at the harbour entrance, with a strong N.W. breeze and showers of rain, and there...