LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When two teens were swept into a rough sea on 28 December 2009, one was washed straight back to safety. The other wasn’t so lucky, but help was on its way

A south easterly force 6 was blowing on the south Devon coast. Seas...

The casualties are brought ashore and taken to hospital if necessary.. - View image in PDF

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Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...

JUNE 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 A.M. on the 16th June, a vessel in the Barley Picle was flying the “ Not under control ” signal. She was kept under observation. At noon a tug went out but found that the vessel,...

Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Eddy John Porthcawl crew member and shore helper, in December 2001 Captain F Sheridan Galway deputy launching authority, on 4 April Tommy Alcock Former Holyhead coxswain, on 7...

A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.

Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—It will be remembered by our readers that on the occasion of the Jubilee of our late beloved QUEEN VICTORIA, in the year 1887, the Committee of Management, with the sanction of Her Most Gracious Majesty, who was the...