LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The lifeguards Mr and Mrs Painter met in The Gambia were among 30 amazing volunteers trained there by the RNLI in 2013.

The Gambian lifeguards also received some basic rescue equipment from the...

At daybreak on the morning of the 28th October, a vessel was seen stranded amongst the breakers about a mile to the eastward of this port.

The Lossiemouth life-boat was at once launched and pulled through a very heavy sea...

— Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 2nd February a telephone message was received from the Coastguard at Sizewell, stating that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, and making signals for assistance. The No. 2 Lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...

STANDING BY FOR 22 HOURS Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 12.24 in the afternoon of January 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground on the Black Rocks one mile south-east of Dunbar in a thick fog. The weather was...

After six days of gales from the S.E. to S.W. the wind changed on the 15th December to the N.W., blowing a moderate gale, with squalls of rain and a heavy, confused sea. During the afternoon the coxswain saw, about six miles S.E., a tramp...

Clovelly, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th cf May, 1948, the Rev.

H. C. A. S. Muller, of Appledore. landed in a small boat from the motor pleasure boat Kingsley, of Barnstaple, and reported that the boat's...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 22nd of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Patriot, of Rostock, had asked for a doctor. Tidal conditions were unsuitable for a shoreboat to put out, and at 10.28 the No...

Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...