LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CAPTAIN" WILLIAM ROHEKTS. who died on the 5th of December, 1956, at the age of 76, was formerly second coxswain of the Moclfre life-boat and the winner of the Institution's highest award, the gold medal. This was for a service...

JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 5.5 P .M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...

CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWBIGGIN FEBRUARY 4TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of the 3rd of February, 1940, the Belgian motor vessel Eminent, of Antwerp, with a crew of nine men, was on her way to Newcastle-on-Tyne.

FEBRUARY 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.45 A.M. the naval base reported a vessel in difficulties off the harbour entrance.

The weather was foggy, with a light northerly wind, and the sea was calm. At 9...

During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for

The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...

PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...

Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...