LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
2014: A year in numbers
In 2014, RNLI lifeboats launched 8,462 times and our busiest station was Tower on the River Thames, with 543 launches.
Volunteer lifeboat crews rescued 8,727 people – an increase from 2013’s 8,384 rescues – with 368...
Category: Articles
RACE TO THE RESCUE
After a fishing boat capsized in seconds just outside Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford, two volunteer crew members had to improvise if they were to respond in time …
Coxswain Eamonn O’Rourke...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Sculptor
THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...
Category: Obituaries
Severe Weather Hits Yacht
Blyth's all-weather lifeboat, one of the victims of the hoax call on the previous page, is pictured towing a yacht to safety on 17 October last year after she had fallen foul of suddenly deteriorating weather.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aircraft
SEPT . 7TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after 10 P.M. information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Light-vessel. The life-boat found nothing, spoke the light-vessel, and learned...
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Celebrating life
FAREWELL TO FRANK
This issue we are saying goodbye to some well-loved and dedicated RNLI people – including a man who helped us to understand the effects of cold water...
Category: Articles
Sixty-Two Rescued
ON the 17th of January this year—a night of a north-westerly gale and sleet showers—the motor vessel Tapti, of London, ran aground on the Eileen Soa rocks in the Gunna Sound between the islands of Tiree and Coll in the Outer Hebrides. She...
Category: Services
Raylight
Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
Stranraer:
Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs