LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney... - View image in PDF

Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...

Cardiff ladies' guild increased their income in 1976 by about 30 per cent.

Of the £5,010 they raised for the lifeboat service last year £1,460 was by way of their annual collection and £1,000 was the...

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

MARCH, APRIL AND MAY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: April 8 D class: April 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: March 24 and April 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1 (three times) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 13, April...

Saved yacht BEAUMARIS HONORARY SECRETARY was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 0943 on Saturday, July 23, 1977, that the skipper of Rossekop, on passage from Glasson Dock to Amsterdam and now 20 miles north east of Point Lynas, was injured...

The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...

When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.

It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...