LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...

THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...

MARYPORT AND WHITEHAVEN. — The barque Carn Tual, of Liverpool, sailed from Maryport on the 6th October, and on the 9th, at 9 P.M., she was observed to be showing signals of distress, at which time she was riding in the Sol way between Kobin...

Valiant attempt HM COASTGUARD asked the deputy launching authority of Bangor ILB station to stand by at 1135 on Sunday May 20; a canoist had capsized half a mile north of the harbour and another canoist was trying to bring him in. The DLA...

Crew member swims to stranded yacht Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...

Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St Helier lifeboat...

Fire aboarcLSpanish cargo vesselLifeboats and their crews are often called on to work with the other emergency services and that includes the Fire Service when their work takes them beyond the range of their land-bound...

Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...