LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two mayday calls in quick succession put Walton and Frinton lifeboat crew on high alert

motoryacht’s two crew issued a mayday just before 1pm on Monday 21 June, after suffering engine failure. The boat was drifting towards...

Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...

The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...

CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT WICK SEPTEMBER 21ST. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 2.25 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks inside Duncansby Head and in need of immediate help, and at five minutes...

A LETTER of commendation signed by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr.

Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., was sent to Coxswain A. E. V. Cadman, D.S.M., and the crew of the Dover life-boat on the part they played in rescuing seven...

19-hour service Dunbar lifeboat was involved in a 19-hour struggle to recover the stricken vessel Coromandel after it became stranded 25 miles east of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. The lifeboat crew endured conditions so rough that one member...

FEBRUARY 16TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.

A steamer had been torpedoed, and one of her boats with fifteen survivors in it was reported drifting two miles north of Loophead.

The life-boat could not find them, and...

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Duncan was launched from this station at 6 A.M. on the 10th October last, and rescued 2 men from a perilous position on board the fishing smack Gleaner. A sudden storm had compelled a number of fishing...