LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RNLI lifeguards save lives on beaches around the UK and sometimes ‘Down Under’, but their skills can be called into practice in far more unusual locations.Kirstin Prisk was 7 hours into a fl ight from London to New York when he noticed...

Cromarty.—On the afternoon of the 23rd December the local fishing boat Messina, with three men on board, was seen to be in a dangerous position off South Suter Point. She was trying to get back after lobster fishing, but could make no...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.

Helier, Jersey.—12th January, 1938. A sea-plane had been seen flying very low, and it was feared that she had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found. The search was made by the St...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 1.24 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, it was learned that a motor boat with nine people on board had broken down and was in difficulties off Ramsgate sands. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 1.31 in a...

IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: Mrs I. P. Macintyre, patron of Airdrie branch since its re-constitution in 1980. Mrs Macintyre served as the guild honorary secretary from 1930 to 1957 and as president from 1957 to...

JANUARY 20TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 10.15 A.M. red flares were seen from the schooner Windermere, of Dublin, which was at anchor in Dun Laoghaire harbour. A whole easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and snow. The schooner...

JANUARY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal two miles south-south-east of Gorleston pier.

A light northerly...

APRIL 26TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 2.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a boat was adrift west of Worthing pier, and that no reply had been received to signals. No boats or men were available at Worthing, and...