LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The schooner Viscount Macduff, of Macduff, N.B., while entering the harbour of Tynemouth during the night of the 26th December, was struck by a heavy sea, which washed overboard the captain and one of the crew, who were at the wheel at the...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...

Hastings, Sussex. At 8.55 on the evening of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties nine miles south-east-by-south of Hastings. At 9.42 the life-boat...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of Feb- ruary, 1961, the motor mechanic in- formed the honorary secretary that the yacht Clwyd had run aground on the north side of the Ribble estuary. The...

Mcelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1957, a dinghy three miles north-east of Moryn Point, Dulas, was seen drifting out to sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launch- ed. There was a rough...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 10.36 a.m. on 22nd February, 1967, a message was received from the R.N.A.S.

Brawdy that one of their aircraft had gone into the sea in St. Bride's Bay. The life-boat Joseph Soar...

Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1947 when he became coxswain, a position he held until the station closed in...

PROBLEM: A shocking 76% of fishermen who died between 2010 and 2013 weren’t wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid – it’s just not common practice on a lot of boats. In many cases, wearing a PFD could have saved the victim’s life.