LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...

2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...

NOVEMBER 4TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

The local fishing cobles Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward had gone out in bad weather, and by 11.45 A.M.

it had got so much worse, with a fresh N.E....

MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.

It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...

• Now that This is Rough Weather Sailing has been written by Erroll Bruce, everyone thinking of going offshore, cruising or racing, should read it. Those whose interest is purely in the work of the rescue services should read it, too, for it...

Part two of our definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes. This issue we bring you the inshore fleet and the Institution's only intermediate class… Brede Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class...

Kinghorn Lifeboat Station’s tractor driver tells us what it’s like to be a part of the RNLI family

How are you involved with the RNLI?
I was senior helm, retiring in 1995. In 2014 I rejoined as tractor driver....

During a W.N.W. moderate gale on the 12th January a telephone message was re- ceived reporting that a ship was ashore near the Formby Lightvessel. The steam Life-boat Queen was despatched, and on proceeding alongside found the ship Kalliope...