LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, concludes his report from the 1995 International Lifeboat Conference with a look at the development of new lifeboats around the world and initiatives to improve safety at sea There...

Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...

JANUARY 8 T H . - B A L T I M O R E , C O .

CORK. At 8.35 at night the relatives of the crew of the motor fishing boat Pride of Sherkin, of Sherkin Island, reported the boat long overdue. A moderate north-east gale was...

FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...

Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...

LIZARD.—The schooner Gipsy Queen, of Padstow, bound from London for Liverpool, with cement, struck on Mynheer Rocks during a moderate gale from the N.E. on the evening of the 13th March, and showed signals of distress. The Lifeboat Edmund...

FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...

HENDON, SUNDERLAND.—As the re- sult of a shipwreck, with loss of life, at Ryhope Point, Sunderland, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has, on the strong representation of the Local Committee, formed a Life-boat station at Hendon Beach...