LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Windsurfer untangled In winds of up to force 8, Bridlington's D class lifeboat Lord Feoffees III launched to assist a windsurfer in trouble early in the afternoon of 20 March 2004. After a rough passage, Helmsman Duncan Stewart and Crew...

A lone fisherman made a mayday call on 3 December 2008 after catching his hand in his boat’s winch 5 miles off the Kent coast. When the Dungeness lifeboat, the Mersey class Pride and Spirit, arrived, he had freed himself but had serious arm...

The Institution has awarded its bronze medal to Captain James Winter, harbour master of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, who 'is 69 years old, for his gallantry in taking command of the life-boat, when the coxswain was ill, and rescuing the...

Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, and two other men have won bronze medals for rescuing two men whose dinghy was in grave danger in very heavy seas off West Kirby in the river Dee. They went out to the rescue in a dinghy knowing that if...

On the 14th February the Norwegian barque Iris, of Stavager, had several of her sails blown away in a terrific gale off the Mull of Cantyre, and was compelled to run for Machrihannish Bay, where she let go both her bower anchors. Being...

The brigantine Hitena, was observed with signals of distress flying and drifting towards the rocks off Brixham, during a heavy gale of wind on the 19th March. The City of Exeter life- boat was quickly manned and launched, pulled with a will...

AFTER the Annual Meeting, which was held in the Central Hall, Westminster, the Prince of Wales paid a private visit to the Westminster Hospital to see Miss Hannah Denham, who for many years had been a patient in the incurable ward, and who...

On the 5th May, in a moderate breeze and smooth sea, the barque Queen Margaret, of Glasgow, stranded on a submerged reef of rocks to the south of the Lizard.

The vessel was a large four-masted barque of nearly 2,000 tons,...