LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A local club’s sailing session made it a busy Valentine’s day for Aberystwyth lifeboat crew. The B class Spirit of Friendship was launched when a dinghy was seen capsizing several times, with her two-person crew having more and more trouble...

On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.

New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...

JULY 6TH - .WALMER, KENT. At 12.50 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough...

LOWESTOFT | 6 JUNE
After a Dutch yachtsman failed to reach his destination and days of radio silence passed, a Coastguard aircraft spotted him drifting 14 miles off Lowestoft. Coxswain John Fox launched with his fellow crew...

NOVEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 9.22 A.M. the coastguard reported that an airman had baled out from his aeroplane a mile E.S.E. of the coastguard lookout. A S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight swell. The No. 1...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...

SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow, and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—8th September, 1939. Shortly before midnight reports had been received that flares from a vessel ashore on Blackwater Bank had been seen. Both life-boats searched without success, and...