LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...

Boy rescued TWO PEOPLE IN THE SEA at Rocky Valley, Bossiney, near Tintagel, 6.7 miles from Port Isaac, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Port Isaac lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1326 on Monday August 14,...

Loss of power A GERMAN SHIP, Sunnanhav, broken down eight miles north east of Flamborough Head, was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0900 on Thursday February 15. She was being...

Five saved as fishing vessel drags ashore in storm force winds Arocky cove backed with high cliffs is no place to be when a severe onshore gale, gusting to Storm Force, is pounding the coast, but that is exactly the situation Coxswain Pat...

Following the article 'Waiting for the lifeboat', which appeared in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Lifeboat, Lytham coxswain, Paul Heyes, and station honorary secretary, Frank Kilroy, discuss their individual viewpoints regarding...

Boys stranded at base of cliffWhen reports came through of two people trapped by the tide south of Tynemouth Harbour, Mechanic Kevin Mole knew a quick launch was vital Kevin Mole was at Tynemouth station when he heard that two boys were...

At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, a paper was read by Mr. 0. HARDING, P. E. Met. Soc., on "The Gale of October 15-16th, 1886, over the British Islands," in which he remarked that the storm was of very...

Two fathers stranded at sea were about to give up hope of seeing their children again after a jetskiing trip went horribly wrong ...

Battered by huge waves after their watercraft sank and now...