LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — During the morning of the 28th August, 1938, a vessel under sail was seen beating up towards Cefn Sidan. A moderate N.

gale was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The vessel was...

High and dry Tobermory's Elizabeth Fairtie Ramsey launched three times between 620am and 5pm on 10 March 2006 to a 16m fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).

When the...

BRONZE MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY Former Port St Mary crew member Rick Tomlinson, Lough Swilly On 16 April 1991 photographer Rick Tomlinson was taking publicity shots of the Lough Swilly D class lifeboat from his rigid inflatable when a fishing...

OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...

What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains

‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...

Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...

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