LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RescUe Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity...

THE first organisation for rescuing those in danger at sea to come into being in Sweden was established by the Swedish Government in 1854, when a life-boat station was set up in the south of Sweden. The service was under naval control until...

Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...

Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.

—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...

WE regret to announce the death, #t the ripe age of ninety years, of the Rev. Chancellor Owen LI. Williams, of Llanrhyddlad Rectory, Cemlyn, Angle- sey, a Life-boat Station with which the reverend gentleman had been closely and honourably...

ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...

EVERYBODY is complaining that trade and business are bad, and that as a result any effort to raise money for charitable purposes requires an operation similar to that time-honoured one of extracting "blood from a stone" ! It is sad...

JANUARY 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 6.52 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian steamer Meuse was aground near the Haisboro’ Sands.

A W.N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea...