LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.

A strong...

LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.

Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...

JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...

Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables

Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...

FEBRUARY 3RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.5 in the morning the naval control at Southend reported that H.M.

drifter Silver Seas had been abandoned and was adrift to the west side of Southend pier.

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...

GOD HELP OTIS MEW AT SEA.

FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, TO THE CREW? J' ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHElTrEr.SONS, . ROM THE 1ST JANUARY...