LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA.—Two cobles were in danger, a sudden gale from S.E.

having sprung np while they were working their lines, about two or three miles from the shore, on the morning of the 12th January, and the sea...

Drifting on ebb tide WHILE AT SEA on exercise at 1115 on Sunday, April 4, St Catherines ILB received a message by radio from the Sea Rescue Centre, St Helier, to say that a small motorboat had broken down one mile east of the ILB station;...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1995 show that during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 6,092 times (an average of more than 16 launches a day) 1,621 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some 4%...

• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...

REDCAR AND MIDDLESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

—The Redcar life-boat men having refused to work their boat, as they considered it was not large enough, a larger and more roomy life-boat has been supplied to them in its place. It is...

On the 12th February, the Grace Darling was again launched and stood by some fishing-boats which had been overtaken by a rough sea..

Two mayday calls in quick succession put Walton and Frinton lifeboat crew on high alert

motoryacht’s two crew issued a mayday just before 1pm on Monday 21 June, after suffering engine failure. The boat was drifting towards...

Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....