LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barry Dock No. 2 lifeboat launched on September 27,1975, to help Storm Eagle, a yacht being driven ashore by a strong south-westerly gale. She got a line aboard just as the yacht's anchor rope parted and towed her, with her three crew,... - View image in PDF

Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.25 A.M. on the 8th May news was received from the coastguard that an S O S

OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....

Royal visit to four Scottish stations The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, visited four lifeboat stations on the west coast of Scotland during a two day visit in July.

On 21 and 22 July, the President met...

Casualties as pleasure boat collides with landing craft Poole's 33ft Brede and Boston Whaler lifeboats were called to a major emergency inside Poole Harbour on 26 June 1988.

Maid of the Harbour, a large pleasure craft...

The steamer Prinz Wilhelm, of Hamburg, whilst bound in ballast from Hamburg to the Tyne, stranded about two miles to the north of Seaham on the 26th October.

A dense fog prevailed at the time and a strong sea was running....

'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...

(This article appeared in Home Chat on the 29th of August, 1953.

It is reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.) THREE or four years ago, in the course of a television programme transmitted one summer's evening...