LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cold, wet and darkness form a classic environment for fear, and if this trio is mixed with the other fierce ingredients of a sea driven to fury by a winter storm hurling its strength against an unyielding tidal stream, it would take a truly...

Small trawler sinks SHETLAND COASTGUARD received a mayday call at 0248 on Wednesday January 16, from the fishing vessel Brighter Morn saying that she had run aground on The Ord, a headland ten miles south east of Lerwick; she was holed and...

Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...

JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the life-boat station. A light...

SEPTEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.40 in the evening the Tara coastguard reported a steamer on the Long Rock, at South Rock, and the motor lifeboat Herbert John was launched at 7.8 P.M.

The coxswain was asked to...

It was the morning of Saturday 24 May 2008 and the sailor, en route from the Azores to Ireland, was in considerable pain. He struggled to control his yacht in the rough seas that would inevitably worsen – gales were expected for the evening....

Fig. 1: While at sea all crew members wear protective clothing, regulation lifejackets and bump caps as well as personal lifelines with which they can secure themselves to jackstays when working on deck.. - View image in PDF

and photo (D) catches the moment when the casualty's crew arrive on deck and are waiting to be taken aboard the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF