LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...

Catamaran in distress THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Lyme Regis inshore lifeboat station was informed by Portland Coastguard at 1135 on Monday May 28, 1979, that a red flare had been fired from a white boat about l'/2 miles south of Beer Head...

Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal and U. to Mr.

JAMES MACKAY for saving two boys by swimming at great risk to a boat, which, had been swamped while attempting to cross the Bar of Tongue, tine Margaret, of Rye, which was...

Atlantic College, Glamorganshire January 21.

Beaumaris, Anglesey December 26 and February 4.

Broughty Ferry, Angus January 3 and February 15.

Conway, Caernarvonshire December 24.

IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...

North West passage Captain Patrick Roberts undertook a sponsored windsurf from Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to Ramsey on the Isle of Man.

The sail started at 1pm in light winds and sunshine, but the wind soon died...

Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...

Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.

At first this may come as no surprise, but between...