LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...

ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 7th October, during the severe storm which worked wide devastation over a great portion of the United Kingdom, a vessel was seen to be labouring heavily and showing signals of distress, some two or three miles from the...

THE tragic loss of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat was the worst disaster in terms of number of men lost since the Mumbles life-boat capsized with the loss of the whole of her crew in 1947. It occurred on the 8th of December, 1959,...

ON account of the simultaneous pub- lication with this issue of a special Cen- tenary Number, and our intention to publish in the next issue, wh;ch will appear in November, an illustrated!supplement, with an account of the various Centenary...

The merry cobbler: Fakenham shoe mender Chris Thomas, who is also a member of the re-formed Fakenham and District branch, dressed his mechanical shoe-mending dummy in lifeboatman's gear to attract attention during the town's flag... - View image in PDF

COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR AND BALTIMORE | 17 JUNE
A solo yachtswoman was in a race from Falmouth to Baltimore when she lost power and steering off the Cork coast in a force 6. Courtmacsherry and Baltimore...

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THE remarkable variety of the services which life-boat crews are called upon to perform today is clearly shown in the accounts received from the stations during the spring and early summer of this year and recorded in these...