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Moon Dragon

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...

Storjohann

Date: February 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 127

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—A vessel was seen in distress at the south end of Eamsey Island, at 8 A.M. on the 18th December. The Augusta Life-boat put off to her, and pulled across the sound through a heavy sea. The vessel had then...

I had little chance

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Brian O’Carroll and his sister Kate were sailing a dinghy off County Wicklow when they capsized. Here, in Brian's own words, is their story.

We were making good speed towards Mizen Head and had intended to round it and...

Category: Articles

Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1908

Date: May 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 232

Jan. 9.—Voted the Silver Medal to FREDK. CHARLES HICKS, who by swimming saved, at imminent risk of his own life, the Captain of the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who had been washed on to the Helwether rook after the vessel was...

Category: Articles

Race to the Rescue

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Born to be wild - Skegness lifeboat crew Heft to right! Ginger Sewell. Mark Holley, Dave Sellers, Hay Chapman, John Irving and Richard Watson In front is Morris Hatton. lifeboat shop manager and ex crew member of over 40 years, on what is... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Well Oiled!

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Well oiled! Ray Burden and his wife Deanna recently presented an oil painting of Weymouth lifeboat, Tony Vanderve/l, to coxswain Bob Runyeard.

Ray painted the picture and donated it to the station to mark the 20th... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

WICK NAMING

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

The naming ceremony and dedication of the new Wick, Caithness, life-boat Princess Marina —she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark II— took place in September. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra named the boat, the cost of which was met from the H. M....

Category: Inaugurations

Scarborough

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

All In the Day's Work

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

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...

Category: Articles

Luke’s book

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

Lifeboat Luke and his colourful friends have been entertaining children around Ireland with their daily adventures on RTÉ’s Den tots.

Now the group, who keep the seas safe around the magical town of Donaghadoo, are...

Category: Articles