LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BridlingtSn, Yorkshire. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 12th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that green flares had been reported six to eight miles east-by- south of Flamborough Head. There was a moderate...

SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DUTCH TRAWLER Berwick-upon-T weed, Northumberland.

At 12.14 on the afternoon of the 14th June, 1962, a message was received from the staff of the Flag Officer, Scotland, that the Netherlands fishery...

CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was...

TWENTY-THREE CHILDREN CUT OFF BY TIDE Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the coxswain that the police had reported twenty-three children cut off by the tide at Seaford head....

RNLI lifeguards save lives on beaches around the UK and sometimes ‘Down Under’, but their skills can be called into practice in far more unusual locations.Kirstin Prisk was 7 hours into a fl ight from London to New York when he noticed...

PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...

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...

THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...